Le quattro volte
A beautiful combination of an old man's struggle to continue
his goathearding life; the birth of a baby goats; a tree which becomes
charcoal; and the lives of the simple people in the hills of Calabria. We see
the stages of life through beautiful imagery at times dramatic and at times
comical.
Jonathan Romney, writing in The Independent on Sunday,
described Le Quattro Volte as "both magnificent and magnificently
economical", remarking "I like to think that it's possible for cinema
to make profound cosmological statements without having to go all Cecil
B. DeMille".Romney finds the film "the freshest and the deepest
film I've encountered in a while", and "one of those rare films that
anyone could enjoy, whether or not they normally care for slow Italian art
cinema"
There is virtually no dialogue in the film. The film was
written and directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
and stars Giuseppe Fuda, Nazareno Timpano, Bruno Timpano and Artemio Vellone.
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