Step into the stylish and naive world of the 1960s. A time when technology was at a minimum, literature was at a maximum, music was listened to on records, and people exuded an unparalleled sense of style and innocence. It was an era where face-to-face communication in a sophisticated setting was a way of life. With these evocative feelings, we enter the exhibition in Venice, a tribute to the iconic Marcello Mastroianni.

Outstanding professionalism and talent, an icon of elegance, style and unrepeatable charm. It is the opportunity for a journey into his cinema and his world, simple and, at the same time, full of extraordinary interpretations, not only through the iconic shots that will bring the characters of his films to life but also his gaze and his everyday life captured by the objective of many stage photographers in the images, including unpublished ones, recovered from that precious treasure chest that is the photographic archive of the CSC. The opportunity to tell, also through his voice and his own story from the extracts of a long conversation, recorded on the occasion of a meeting with the students of the Experimental Center, a protagonist who, through his characters, combined the charm of graceful indolence, charisma and an interpretative ability that has touched all the chords of cinema, from comedy to drama and a special feeling, in life as on stage, with women, yes, but above all with his audience.

We hear Mastroianni in his language from the directors he worked with, especially Fellini, his colleagues and personal friends, and his friends on the set. We hear their passion for cinema and how they experience it from their opinions and watch it in videos.

Marcello, come here… One hundred years and over one hundred times, Mastroianni is the homage of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia to Marcello Mastroianni, an exhibition curated by Laura Delli Colli, born in agreement with the Biennale and during the 81st Venice International Film Festival Cinematographic Art of Venice. Located on the island of San Servolo, where the new and evocative headquarters of the CSC – Immersive & Performing Arts, the first centre dedicated to immersive and performing arts in Italy, is being set up, the exhibition was inaugurated on 30 August and will be open to public – with free admission – from 31 August to 9 January 2025.