Performance

Scacco alla regina (Check to the Queen)

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At the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the film program turns to *Scacco alla regina (Check to the Queen)*, a 1969 Italian feature directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. The film_score unfolds like a strategic duel, using intimacy and power as its main pieces, and letting social roles shift with each move. In New York, its significance sits in MoMA’s long practice of framing European postwar cinema within the city’s public cultural record, even when a clear NYC premiere history is not well documented. Festa Campanile’s control is cool and observant, with the story’s gamesmanship doing the critique.