A popular Rome open-air cinema
is to move from its home in Trastevere to three outlying venues
after a dispute with city hall.
The Piccolo Cinema America is to move from Piazza San
Cosimato to Rome's marina at Ostia, Monte Ciocci at Valle
Aurelia and the Casale della Cervelletta at Tor Sapienza, the
leader of the Piccolo Cinema America Kids, Valerio Caroci, told
a press conference Monday.
The move has been decided, Caroci said, after Rome Deputy
Mayor Luca Bergamo "decided in a totally arbitrary way, simply
for electoral motives, to take Piazza San Cosimato away from
us".
He said Bergamo's putting San Cosimato out to tender had been
a "ruse", because winners allegedly had a gag order enforced on
them preventing them from criticising the city administration.
Oscar winners Roberto Benigni and Paolo Sorrentino have been
among those appealing to Rome's anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S) administration not to force the cinema out of
Trastevere.
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