The Wolfsonian Museum, Coral Gables Museum and Cinema Italy would like to invite you to the free screening of the film L’Estate di Martino
ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 28th at 8:00 pm at the Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave in Coral Gables
In the summer of 1980, on the backdrop of two tragic events, the downing of a commercial airliner over Ustica and the bombing of the train station in Bologna, we meet Martino, a shy introverted fourteen years old that is spending his vacations with an older brother and his friends. One day, while walking on the beach, they see three American soldiers surfing in the beach inside the military zone controlled by NATO. Martino is impressed by the ability of the soldiers to ride the waves and, entering the forbidden beach thru a hole in the net, he runs into Captain Jeff Clark. A strange friendship is born between the two, growing with the surfing lessons Captain Clark is giving Martino while he is falling in love with his older brother friend.
(Italy, directed by Massimo Natale, 2010, Official selection of Cinema Italy 2012, Italian with English subtitles, digital, 90 min.)