?Caterina in the Big City?, an Italian box office hit about a 15-year-old girl?s coming of age, is the Bermuda International Film Festival?s September Film Night selection.

The film will screen on Thursday September 15 at 7.30 p.m. in the Tradewinds Auditorium at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute theatre.

Caterina is a teenage schoolgirl, living in a small rural community. Her life is turned upside down when her irascible school teacher father (the terrific Sergio Castellitto) decides to move the family to Rome, to live in his old home. The film then proceeds to depict with biting satire, Caterina?s experiences in a prestigious Rome public school, where all her would-be friends are the offspring of the rich, famous and politically important of Italy?s ruling elite.

As her friends gradually lead her into more absurd and grandiose social situations and outbursts of dangerous delinquency, her bemused parents try to monitor her progress and desperately ingratiate themselves with the more well-to-do parents of Caterina?s friends.

?Caterina in the Big City? has, unsurprisingly, been very successful at the Italian box office, being both very funny and penetratingly accurate about the right and left of Italy?s upper social echelons. In all, it is a terrific contemporary coming of age comedy with considerable intelligence, fulfilling the promise that director, Paolo Virz?, showed in his debut feature ?Living it Up?. It is also aided immeasurably by fantastic acting from both Castellitto (as the embarrassing social climber) and Margherita Buy, as his sympathetic long suffering wife.