Giuseppe Becce has been the go-to composer for German expressionist directors. He worked with Fritz Lang, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and Ernst Lubitsch. The reach and scope of German expressionist cinema are immeasurable: it translated the disquiet of modernity into a visual style of contrasting lights and shadows. Speaker Marco Bellano and pianist Gabriele Dal Santo will offer an anthology of memorable moment of expressionist cinema score, accompanied by a choice of piano adaptations of creepy-sounding French Romantic symphony, taken from Becce’s repertoire. A lecture in Italian and film-concert excerpts.
