event
Saturday 9 May 2026 11.30 AM

film - una tragicommedia all'italianaLa ricottaby Pier Paolo Pasolini

MAXXI auditorium
free admission, subject to availability
year of production: 1963
running time: 35’

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Monday closed
Tuesday to Sunday 11 am – 7 pm

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A film within a film, featuring bursts of fierce criticism of the Italian bourgeoisie alongside moments of dreamlike suspension.

Una tragicommedia all’italiana (An Italian-style tragicomedy), curated by Davide Oberto, is a programme designed to explore how Italian cinema has transformed social tensions and bourgeois vacuity into comedy – often tragic and ironic – oscillating between biting satire, social criticism and the grotesque.

In collaboration with Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale. The film is distributed by Compass Film.


individual seats reserved for myMAXXI cardholders by writing to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it, by the day before the event