Queen's Film Theatre
Usual Ticket Price: £5.50
Baaria
Sun-drenched epic set in a small Sicilian town, from the director of Cinema Paradiso.
With Cinema Paradiso, Giuseppe Tornatore directed one of the most loved films of recent years. He now returns with the similarly nostalgic and warm-hearted Baaria, a tribute to the Sicilian town of his birth.
Lavish in scale yet intimate in subject, Baaria's story covers a period extending from the 1930s to the 1980s and revolves around the shepherd Cicco and his son Peppino. When Cicco teaches himself to read he brings the wrath of the Fascist authorities down upon him. His son Peppino follows in his father's footsteps when he joins the Communist Party in a town led by the Mafia-friendly Christian Democrats and embarks on a political career...
With its epic style and surging score (by the inimitable Ennio Morricone), Baaria is an undeniable treat for the senses. It's also funny, moving and immensely satisfying; a warmly intimate story of a local hero and a life filled with everyday successes and failures.
