For the Raison d'ê3 showcase, the MYLF youngsters are presenting Sleuth by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

For this third season, the successful collaboration between the MYLF - Movies You'll Like Festival group university students and the National Cinema Museum, has given birth to a showcase dedicated to the number 3 titled Raison d'ê3. A trilogy is the most widespread form of linking artworks, be they books, films or anything else. Moreover, the number 3 is an important esoteric number, often connected with the concepts of end, new beginnings and synthesis.

In a third chapter, one finds the sum of the previous ones. They are quoted, praised and retraced, a glance goes back to the past, but looking at the future. MYLF wishes to be all of this, this year: a synthesis of its three previous years together, the end of a project, but also, and maybe especially, a new beginning.

The showcased film for December is Sleuth by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Admission 4.00 euro.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Sleuth

(Great Britain 1972, 138’, Hd, col., o.v. it. s/t)

Andrew, an elderly English gentleman who writes detective stories, invites young Milo, a hairdresser with Italian origins who is estranging his own wife from him, to his castle, crowded with horrid automatons. The wife is not there and the writer – who has been consoling himself for years over his wife’s infidelities with a Scandinavian lover – suggests to Milo to stand aside, in exchange for a pile of jewels kept in the safe at the castle: the only condition is that the young man steals them…