The 28^ Bergamo Film Meeting started the 6th of Match and will end Sunday the 14th, and in this edition too there was a huge review: more than 80 films in different sections, despite the difficult economical situation of those kind of festivals.
The director Angelo Signorelli wanted to describe the difficult situation and remembered that the festival itself was about to close.
Although the dramatic situation, the ideas were numerous and original.
This was a transitional festival, hoping that in the future the situation will change.
The quality of the BFM, as every year, is the cinema of the past, focusing in old and quality titles.
The most important was the one on the career of Jean Gabin, considered one of the great stars of French cinema: “A certain idea of France”(1936: The Lower Depths and 1973: L’Affaire Dominici).
The other retrospective will be “Light and Darkness: the Dark Lady”, where the role of the dark lady will be studied trough 11 American titles of the 40s and the 50s: for example So Dark the Night (1946) of Joseph H.Lewis
Between the more actual exhibitions there was the “Looking close by”, made by 22 documentaries; it’s important to underline that the Bergamo’s festival always gave a lot of attention to documentaries and not only to films.
In the end there was 7 recent films directed by young directors, showing the attention to the new generations.
