For the ROARING YEARS. Italy, the boom, cinema showcase, film screening of Il boom by Vittorio De Sica.

For the Roaring years. Italy, the boom, cinema showcase, new date with the film screening of Il boom (The boom) by Vittorio De Sica.

The so-called economic miracle was one of the key moments in the history of Italy in the second half of the Twentieth century. A defeated country emerging from World War II was able to channel its productive energies, in a great collective effort, to achieve a level of widespread prosperity never reached before. The "boom", a kind of transition from a society still largely tied to archaic cultural models to a new - but how much better? - modern society, obsessed by myths of progress, and especially by consumerism as a form of self-assertion of the self.

The retrospective - selected from a broad filmography referring to films that dealt more or less directly with different perspectives of Italian society at the time of the boom - offers a critical itinerary, reflecting on a historical period full of dreams and expectations, which soon morphed into frivolous, farcical aspects.