Placido, Wajda movies to screen at Rome Film Fest

(ANSA) - Rome, July 25 - Globalization and unemployment, ideology and freedom are the themes most prevalent at the upcoming Rome Film Festival, whose 11th edition is to be held in the nation's capital October 13-23.
    Actor, screenwriter and director Michele Placido will be on hand with 7 Minutes, based on a true story that took place in France in 2012, in which a multinational asked 11 women employees o make a life-changing employment decision that would affect 300 colleagues. "In a society where the divergence between rich and poor gets more and more acute while labor union or ideological debate decreases more and more, logically what is going to emerge are the personal aspects - personal needs, ego, and desperation," Placido said.
    Veteran Polish director and honorary Oscar and Palme d'Or recipient Andrzej Wajda will also screen with a biopic called Afterimage (Powidoki) about Polish avant-garde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski (1893-1952), who was persecuted by the Communist regime when he wouldn't adapt his art to the dictates of socialist realism.
    "Afterimage is the portrait of a man of integrity," said Wajda. The film's director of photography is Pawel Edelman, who won a Cesar and a European Film Award for his work on Roman Polanski's The Pianist, which garnered multiple Oscars in 2002.