Les insomniaques
Like the Cinéma Public, this new series of screenings at Casa d’Italia is a departure from the usual cinema programming. The Insomniaques screening invites film lovers to discover a new universe with a creative vision without limits. Giving free rein to their instincts and whimsical desires, this series is distinguished by crazy and uncompromising films for the most reckless filmgoers.
In partnership with Fantasia
Past program
3615 code Père Noël
Thomas, 9 years old, passionate about computers, has transformed his house into a vast playground, mined with traps, cameras and secret passages. On the evening of December 24th, he is determined to capture Santa Claus and waits for him to come, hidden under a table.
René Manzor
France
language: French
subtitles: English
92 min
Past program
Carnival of Souls
A young musician named Mary survives a terrible car accident. She leaves her hometown to work in another city. But there, she finds herself persecuted by a man that only she can see. She also finds herself irresistibly drawn to a strange abandoned carnival…
Herk Harvey
United-Sates
language: English
subtitles: French
78 min
Les insomniaques
Christine
Arnie falls in love with Christine, a dilapidated 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with the idea of restoring her. As the car changes, so does Arnie, and his new-found self-confidence turns to arrogance, as his personality takes an increasingly dark turn.
John Carpenter
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
110 min
Les insomniaques
Dazed and Confused
1976. It is the last day of school in a small Texas town. After the hazing of the future students, the different protagonists celebrate the beginning of the vacations. A crazy night follows and between smoke and music, the evening will prove to be revelatory for many.
Richard Linklater
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
103 min
Past program
Eraserhead
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
David Lynch
United-States
language: English
89 min
Les insomniaques
Ginger Snaps
Brigitte and Ginger Fitzgerald, teenage sisters with a fascination for death, as children, made a pact to leave the suburbs or die together by the age of 16. They then must face tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a creature nicknamed the Beast of Bailey Downs.
John Fawcett
Canada
language: English
subtitles: French
108 min
Les insomniaques
Gremlins
A father offers his son an unusual pet, a Mogwai. The rules are simple: keep it away from water, bright lights and, most importantly, never feed him after midnight. But the rules are inadvertently broken, and the consequences multiply at an alarming rate.
Joe Dante
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
106 min
Les insomniaques
La Planète sauvage
On Planet Ygam live intelligent creatures with blue skin, the Draags. They have adopted as pets smaller beings, the Oms, descendants of a few couples brought back from a distant and devastated planet.
René Laloux
France, Czechoslovakia
language: French, Czech
subtitles: English
72 min
Past program
Laissez bronzer les cadavres
After stealing a truckload of gold bars, a gang of thieves absconds to the ruins of a remote village perched on the cliffs of the Mediterranean. But when two cops roll up on motorcycles to investigate, the hamlet erupts into a hallucinatory battlefield.
Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Belgium, France
language: French
subtitles: English
92 min
Past program
Ms .45
A timid and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York City after dark and randomly shoots men with a .45 caliber pistol.
Abel Ferrara
United States
language: English
80 min
Les insomniaques
My Animal
Heather, an outcast teenage goalie, falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.
Jacqueline Castel
Canada
language: English
subtitles: French
100 min
past program
Sexy Beast
Former thug, Gary (Gal) Dove lives a peaceful retirement on the Spanish Costa Del Sol with his beloved wife DeeDee. But his future is once again challenged by the arrival of one of his former comrades-in-arms, Don Logan.
Jonathan Glazer
United-Kingdom, Spain
language: English
subtitles: French
88 min
Past program
Shock
Dora, who witnesses her husband’s suicide, returns to live in her old house, with Bruno, her new partner and her son Marco, from her first marriage. Marco acts increasingly strangely as he becomesvery attracted by the brick wall in the cellar…
Mario Bava
Italia
language: Italian
subtitles: French
95 min
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Spring Breakers
Brit, Faith, Candy and Cotty are best friends looking forward to a wild spring break. Alien, a local rapper, drug dealer and arms dealer, lures them into a criminal milieu that is as scary as it is liberating for a tight-knit group of girlfriends still searching for their way.
Harmony Korine
United States, France
language: English
subtitles: French
94 min
Past program
Tampopo
Tampopo, a young widow, runs a mediocre noodle soup restaurant in a working-class district of Tokyo. She struggles bravely and aspires only to an honest life, until the day when a cowboy-like truck driver, Goro, enters her life. Together, they will try to elaborate the ultimate ramen recipe.
Jûzô Itami
Japon
language: Japonais
subtitles: français
114 min
In memory of William Friedkin
The Exorcist
Television actress Chris McNeill is concerned by the increasingly frequent strange noises she hears in the bedroom of her little daughter, Regan. Regan complains that she has trouble sleeping because of the spasmodic movements that shake her bed.
William Friedkin
United States
language: English, Latin
subtitles: French
132 min
Past program
The Scary of Sixty-First
Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.
Dasha Nekrasova
United-States
language: English
82 min
Past program
Trouble Every Day
A portrait of devouring passion, Trouble Every Day is Claire Denis’s most troubling work, but its potency derives less from its explicit images than from the sincerity with which it pursues its carnal conceit.
Claire Denis
France, Germany, Japan
language: French and English
subtitles: bilingual
105 min
Les insomniaques
We're All Going to the World's Fair
Late on a cold night, teenage Casey decides to take the World’s Fair Challenge, an online role-playing horror game. Slowly, she begins to lose herself, caught between dream and reality.
Jane Schoenbrun
États-Unis
language: English
86 min
PAST PROGRAM
Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point attempts to synthesize the student protest movement and free love ethos into a story of brooding masculinity and generational ennui. A visual feast that juxtaposes hyper-commercialized cityscapes with wide open desert scenes.
Michelangelo Antonioni
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
112 min
