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

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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


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

Homegrown cinema


Écartée

Anick Tremblay is a social worker. She also dabbles in video, and starts making an educational production for rehab centres and halfway houses about rebuilding marital relationships after prison.

Lawrence Côté-Collins
Québec (Canada)

language: French

80 min

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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


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

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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

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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

Les insomniaques


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

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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

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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

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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

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