Film Review Cinema & Architecture - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

third appointment of the Cinema & Architettura Review –“Modernity\Conflict”, organised by the Department of Architecture in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna. 

Arancia Meccanica (A Clockwork Orange)

(UK/1971) by Stanley Kubrick (137’) 

Monday 19th 2025 - 9 p.m. 

Introduced by Professor Konstantina Douka

The film will be in the original language with subtitles in Italian

The petit-bourgeois future of Alex DeLarge’s England promises only dilapidated urban outskirts, broken elevators, obscene graffiti, barbarism, and ultraviolence.

The modern ideal of expanded social dignit, a utopian dream born in the postwar era, meant to guarantee housing for all. Ultimately backfired, producing "suburbs" as new urban zones where conflict and decay thrive. What went wrong? Are suburbs inevitably synonymous with failure, or is this just a cliché?

The film leans into the grotesque register of satire (or a "fairy tale," as Kubrick preferred to call it), channeling Swift and Voltaire: everything collapses into farce, even the violence itself, which—despite its detached, almost choreographic presentation, sparked unprecedented outrage.

Location: Cinema Modernissimo, via Rizzoli 1 / 2, Bologna

Tickets:

• Free of charge for the first 50 studentsof the Building Engineering-Architecture, Architecture-Engineering and Building Engineering-Architecture courses who collect their tickets at the Film Library Bookshop on presentation of their student ID and course enrolment certificate for the year 2024/25 (Info Bookshop hours: https://cinetecadibologna.it/luogo/bookshop-della-cineteca-di-bologna/). 

Tickets available starting from 14th of May. After the 50 free tickets, students will still be able to join by purchasing a ticket at the box office.

• 3.50 euros for all Unibo students (at the box office)
• 6 euros full ticket price

Please check in at the bar of Cinema Modernissimo before entering the screening room to register your name.

We kindly ask you to collect free tickets only if you truly intend to attend the screening, so as not to deprive others of the opportunity to see the film for free!

Review Link: https://eventi.unibo.it/cinema-architettura

For any queries write to marta.cannizzaro2@unibo.it