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    Happy to Be Different

    Poster of the movie Happy to Be Different
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    Italy
    2014     Documentary    
    1h 33min
    Original lang: Italian

    A moving and enlightening work of oral history, Gianni Amelio's new documentary is a chronicle of gay life in Italy from the fall of Fascism through the early 1980s. Amelio combines interviews with a wide range of older gay Italian men (including Pasolini muse Ninetto Davoli), newsreel footage, and clips from "educational" films warning against homosexuality, and in the process reveals a profound gap between the subjects' firsthand experiences and the Italian media's representations of them. The resulting film is a deeply personal account of the advent of gay culture amid the ruins of Mussolini's Italy and the eternally poignant story of how persecuted individuals developed pragmatic ways to attain everyday happiness.

    Directed byGianni Amelio

    Featuring

    Glauco Bettera
    Giorgio Bongiovanni
    Sophia Loren
    Marcello Mastroianni
    Ugo Tognazzi
    + MORE

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