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Long Live LibertyViva La LibertàFri 7 March, 18:00Nominated for 12 David di Donatelloawards, including Best Film and BestActor, Long Live Liberty is a tasty politicalfarce with another delicious performancefrom The Great Beauty's Toni Servillo.To be accurate, it is two performances.Servillo plays Enrico Olivieri, the stern,uninspiring leader of Italy's mainopposition party. One day he flees thecountry and his chief aide turns to hismercurial twin brother Giovanni, alsoplayed by Servillo. Could Giovanni stepinto the breach temporarily? The fact thathe is bi-polar and just released from atreatment centre is a petty detail whenappearances must be maintained at allcosts. Giovanni is soon having the time ofhis life, ripping up the rule book and takingthe political debate straight to the people.Dir: Roberto AndòItaly / 2013 / 1h34m / DigitalItalian with English subtitles / 12+Those Happy YearsAnni FeliciSat 08 March, 18:00Daniele Luchetti (My Brother Is An OnlyChild) returns to his childhood in the1970s for this boisterous, beguilingportrait of a family in crisis. Kim RossiStuart is superb as Guido, a pretentioussculptor who is rather too fond of thebeautiful life models deemed essentialto his art. His long-suffering wife Serena(Micaela Ramazzotti) leaves for thesummer with their sons, a decision toassert her independence, which offendsGuido's old-fashioned chauvinism andthat's just the beginning of their troubles.The tension in their relationship and widerchanges in Italian society are seenthrough the eyes of aspiring filmmakerDario (Samuel Garofalo) and youngerbrother Paolo (Niccolo Calvagna) inthis warm and witty autobiographicalremembrance of times past.Dir: Daniele LuchettiItaly / 2013 / 1h46m / DigitalItalian with English subtitles / 15+SandraVaghe Stelle Dell'OrsaSun 9 March, 13:15Made immediately after his masterpieceThe Leopard (Il Gattopardo), LuchinoVisconti's rarely seen Sandra won theGolden Lion (Leone D'Oro) at Venice andhas now been restored to its sparklingbest. Claudia Cardinale's steely, neuroticSandra returns to her home town ofVolterra in Tuscany accompanied by hernew husband Andrew (Michael Craig), toparticipate in a ceremony honouring herfather, a scientist who died in Auschwitz.The homecoming finds her confronted bya distraught mother, a former lover andher dashingly handsome, deeply devotedbrother Gianni. This film is a modernday interpretation of the Electra myth,transformed into a stark, hothousemelodrama featuring strong echoes ofTennessee Williams.Dir: Luchino ViscontiItaly / 1965 / 1h45m / DigitalItalian with English subtitles / 15+18 www.dca.org.uk