FREE JUST TURN UP

Leeds Cineforum is re-launching, Italian style! We’re screening a 1960s Italian comedy classic that’s rarely seen in the UK: Risate di gioia / The Passionate Thief. Followed by a post-screening party featuring the best (and trashiest) Italo disco, DJ’d by our friend Mike Meter.

We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate the Cineforum’s return than screening Risate di gioia. Set in swinging Rome on New Year’s Eve, the film follows struggling actors ‘Totorella’ (Anna Magnani) and ‘L’infortunio’ (Totò) through a series of parties, cabarets and mishaps as they try to infiltrate the upper echelons of Roman society.