The Dazed x MUBI Cinema Membership is again. After launching in April with a screening of Ninja Thyberg’s searing porn drama Pleasure, after which with Paul Verhoeven’s sexually unhinged nun thriller Benedetta, this time it’s A Chiara, Jonas Carpignano that takes centre stage. The third within the Italian director’s ‘Calabrian’ trilogy, neorealist drama focuses on Chiara, the 15-year-old daughter of a rich household whose ties to the native mafia underworld rise to the floor after a stunning revelation.
“The mafia has a really patriarchal construction, with fathers passing on energy to their sons, or nephews, and many others,” explains Carpignano. “And making the movie from the perspective of a woman allowed us to flee the preconceived notions one has about mafia households and inform the story from the perspective of a household, not only a mafia household, however a household.”
Merely put, this isn’t your common coming-of-age story – and, backdropped by the idyllic city of Gioia Tauro the place the movie is ready, because the characters dig past the area’s pure magnificence, the mafia roots inherent to the place turn into alarmingly evident. “There’s the underground financial system, the nice poverty ignored by the state, and to high that, the mass arrival of migrants,” the director explains of the area.
As a part of an ongoing partnership with MUBI, Dazed will maintain an unique screening of A Chiara on July 12 at London’s Backyard Cinema. Tickets are on sale right here for £8 (or £5 for Dazed Membership members), with complimentary drinks included. You’ll be able to turn into a member of Dazed membership by signing up right here.
