The Dryden will screen Ammore e malavita (Love and Bullets, Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti, Italy 2017, 133 min., DCP, Italian w/subtitles).

An off-the-wall comedy-musical-thriller, this film won five Donatello awards in Italy, including Best Picture. After being ambushed and shot in a very uncomfortable place, crime boss Don Vincenzo thinks it may be time to hang up his guns. His cinephile wife concocts a plan based on the James Bond adventure You Only Live Twice wherein they would fake Vincenzo's death so they could take their diamonds and retire someplace far away. The only thing standing in the way of their plan is a nurse who sees the Don alive. When it turns out that the nurse is the long-lost love of the Don's bodyguard, he must choose between love and loyalty. Filled with hilarious song-and-dance numbers, including an adaptation of "Flashdance. . . What a Feeling," this film is like nothing you've seen before.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2019-Feb-4]