Movies presented by natives - Italian

This time me and Fabbio will present a world classic by Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris. He was my favourite director for almost a decade; I used to dance tango as well. I will tell you my personal approach, while Fabbio will share his Italian perspective and try to reach some stories about this Italian-directed movie that have never been published. The movie is longer than usual, so we will meet at 6:00 PM to get drinks and start the presentation at 6:15 PM. The date of the screening is not confirmed yet. The newest information is always available in our WhatsApp group — to join, please PM me.

May the good movies be with you, Paweł

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Organizational info:

• Trattoria Venezia — downstairs in the pizzeria which is in the same building with the hotel. Just enter, ask the waiter or receptionist about the movie meeting and go downstairs to join us. Please remember that the glass doors to the movie room open sideways; please don't push or pull them. The meeting is free; it would be kind to order something. There is OK beer and coffee and very good pizza. Please don't bring your own food and drinks.
• Cyrki — downstairs in an artistic cafe. This place doesn't look very spacious at first but it has much more space in the basement. They have beer, good coffee, nachos and cakes.
• Cafe Literacka — located in the bookstore; ask the bar attendant where the movie room is located. They have great cakes and salads, OK beer and sinfully cheap table wine.

Paweł is a local city, cultural and food tour guide in Kraków since 2007. Initially his knowledge about Polish films was average, but then when he discovered how useful movies are as educational tools to talk about Poland things changed. He started to focus more on important movies about Polish history. Then one day in November 2015 he decided to share it not only during his work as a professional tour guide, but also with the Couchsurfing community and all culturally hungry people — this time totally for free. Since that day in 2015 Paweł joined the Academy of Polish Films and attended as many lectures as possible. He constantly reads about Polish cinema and developed his true passion. At one point Paweł even screened several Polish low-budget productions inviting people who were involved in production, but it was difficult to find movies like that regularly. If you would like to screen your movie or a friend's movie, let him know.

When Poland finally got its first Oscar (we have only one small category — foreign language film), Paweł organized screenings of "Ida" in the cinema twice. His first impression about the event was terrible: 60 people in the hall, and for many of them it was the first Polish film they had ever seen; at least half of them were eating chips making a huge noise with their plastic packages, and one person even opened yogurt, took a spoon and started to eat a regular supper. Paweł thought that would be a huge failure — those people probably expected easy entertainment, American-style shallow action or comedy — but at the end of the screening there were about two minutes of total silence and then huge applause. Paweł thinks that something very important happened that night and those emotions made this project very valuable.

Each movie is followed by Paweł's or his friend's introduction. Sometimes they also screen very rare and almost impossible-to-find online interviews with the director. Of course all materials are with English subtitles. Sometimes the screening of the movie is connected with a tour in the museum or around the city if the topic is related. Integration in English & party.

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