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Free entry to the screenings by presenting the entry ticket to the “Pre-Raphaelites – Love and Desire” exhibition, reduced entry to the exhibition by presenting the Cinetessera 2019

Milan, August 28 2019 - On the occasion of the exhibition “Pre-Raphaelites – Love and Desire”, open at Palazzo Reale until 6 October, a film festival tells the public about the context and times, the dramas and struggles, the loves and scandals that have marked life and the work of the artists who went down in history with the name of Pre-Raphaelites.

From 30 August to 8 September, at the MIC - Interactive Museum of Cinema in Milan, in viale Fulvio Testi, the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan|Cultura and Il Sole 24 OreCultura, offers the opportunity of a complementary experience to the visit of the masterpieces on display at Palazzo Reale on the artistic movement, with strong historical and social implications, founded in London in 1848 by seven students with the aim of freeing British painting from conventions and dependence on the old masters.

For the first time at the cinema, the television series "Desperate Romantics", produced by the BBC, which historically frames the context of the birth of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and delves into the personal and artistic history of the founders Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt. Between tormented loves, scandals, failures and triumphs, these characters will manage to leave an indelible mark in the history of nineteenth-century art.

Then on the calendar is “The Young Victoria” by Jean Marc Vallée (2009), which tells the story of the era in which the movement was born and established itself, namely the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), a period of great political and economic stability , but full of social and cultural contradictions often represented in their paintings.

Many members of the Pre-Raphaelite circle are also writers, and in their works they often deal with the literature they loved: from William Shakespeare, present in the exhibition with the film "Hamlet" by Kenneth Branagh (1996), to the modern Robert Browning, who is proposed in the biopic “The Barrett Family” by Sidney Franklin (1934).

The exhibition also addresses different themes that emerge from the exhibition set up at Palazzo Reale: the Pre-Raphaelite reference to the Italian Middle Ages is told cinematically through the restored silent film "Dante and Beatrice" by Mario Caserini (1913), which he brings to the screen for the first time “Dante's Vita Nova”. The film will be screened with live musical accompaniment by Antonio Zambrini.

Another theme deeply felt by the movement is the emancipation of the female figure, who at the time was not allowed to love freely, but was forced into a marriage that guaranteed social and economic security for herself and her family of origin. Richard's film "Laxton Effie Gray - Story of a Scandal" (2014), tells the story of the struggle of Effie Gray, wife of the art critic John Ruskin, to obtain the annulment of her marriage and then get married, as happened in 1885 , with the painter Millais.

Precisely the campaign by the brotherhood for greater equality of rights led the exponents to represent female figures as powerful, mysterious forces and enchanting goddesses. In this regard, the film "The Mystery of Galatea" (1918) was chosen, never screened in Milan (and embellished, again, by the live accompaniment of Maestro Zambrini) by Giulio Aristide Sartorio, symbolist painter, who not only tells the woman as a mythological figure, but in which we find multiple iconographic references to Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

By presenting the entrance ticket to the exhibition at the MIC cash desk you will be able to access the exhibition screenings for free, while by presenting the Cinetessera 2019 at the Palazzo Reale ticket office you will obtain reduced entry to the exhibition (€12 instead of €14). 
MIC - INTERACTIVE CINEMA MUSEUM - Viale Fulvio Testi 121 - 20162, Milan (MM5 Bicocca)

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TICKETS
Full price: €6,50; reduced with *Cinetessara: €5; child + adult €7; from 16 to 19 years old free entry
*Cinepass valid until 31 December 2019: cost €10.
The entrance ticket allows: a visit to the MIC, the possibility of attending the daily film screening and a guided tour of the New Historical Film Archive, which can be carried out from Tuesday to Sunday at 16.30 pm.