At the ‘Arts’ of Gallarate, always in double projection, the cineforum on Thursday 9 May proposes “The Promised Land” by Nikolaj Arcel with Mads Mikkelsen, Gustav Lindh, Amanda Collin. The film won the European Film Awards.
We are in feudal Denmark in the mid-eighteenth century, the veteran Ludvig Khalen, who has reached the rank of captain despite his humble birth, has a fixed idea in his head: to grow potatoes in the barren Jutland moors. Having set up a home in the middle of nowhere, he will have to deal with his limited economic resources, the inhospitable environment, the absence of manpower; even more, he will find himself facing a local lord, contemptuous and cruel.
With stubbornness, helped only by a priest, a former banished maid, a little gypsy, Kahlen will take some steps in the right direction, except that the difficulties, instead of decreasing, are destined to increase…
Afternoon screening at 3pm led by Cristina Boracchi, in the evening by Gabriele Lingiardi.
