Saturday, October 11, 6:30 PM
Cinema 21

The Italian answer to Thelma and Louise, this directorial debut of Monica Strambini tells the story of Stella and Lenni, young and in love, who work together at a gas station. The station is a happy oasis from a cruel, unsafe world where they express their love simply, nearly childishly. The girls are threatened by Lenni’s caustic, bourgeois mother who wants to destroy their relationship and one night in a heated argument she is accidentally killed and the girls have to dispose of the corpse. When the heroines leave their sanctuary and get out into the night, the road movie begins and they encounter a world, hostile to their sexuality, a nighttime adventure which launches a series of car chases, danger and action to the end.

Dir. Monica Strambrini
2001 Italy 35mm 85 min Italian with English subtitles