This film review accompanies and explores some of the shows that make up the main focus Parallel Lives, placing the dialogue between literature, theatre and cinema at the centre.
The selected films are taken from great novels or plays that, after having been consecrated on the big
screen, come back to life today on stage through new directorial and dramaturgical looks: Marco Bellocchio's The Seagull (1977), Claude Chabrol's Madame Bovary (1991), Miloš Forman's Amadeus (1984) offer emblematic examples of the transposition from the written word to the moving image. These are flanked by freer and more daring adaptations such as Luciano Salce's Fantozzi (1975), François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 (1966) and Orlando (1992).
A diptych dedicated to artificial intelligence completes the review: Blade Runner by Ridley Scott (1982), inspired by the novel by Philip K. Dick, and Lei (Her) by Spike Jonze (2013) offer food for thought on identity, empathy and the future of the human being, themes that the shows of the thematic path Quantum Intelligences welcome and rework through their own scenic sensitivity.
