"Parigi O Cara": Terrorism, Exile, And Escape in Contemporary Italian Cinema and Theatre‪.‬

Giancarlo Lombardi, in "Parigi o cara: Terrorism, Exile, and Escape in Contemporary Cinema and Fiction," focuses on the portrayal of the community of Italian terrorists in exile in Paris as presented in a play, a documentary, and a full-length feature film. Locus of "abjection," land of apparent shelter and freedom, Paris is the maze in which former terrorists lose themselves while escaping justice. It is also the repository of unconfessed and unconfessable secrets. It is a place that former terrorists always contrast with the Italian cities and villages in which they were born; it is an abyss from whose depth they are granted blindness and vision: the same blindness and vision through which they form new perspectives on their past actions. Massimo Carlotto, acclaimed author of several novels and a memoir, weaves within his own autobiography the many tales of several political refugees in Paris and Mexico City: