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FILM - THE QUATTRO VOLTE - Michelangelo Frammartino - Italy - (At The Harlequin Theatre)

4.5 / 5

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Hymn to life as a beautiful cinematic poem:

images, sounds (the sounds of animals, nature, like the wind in the trees ...), not a note of music, no dialogue *...

(* a dream come true for me: see a film in VO without the chore of reading the subtitles). -

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Filmed in a remote village in Calabria the four realms (human, animal, vegetable, mineral) are present: they mingle, are linked.

In an interview, the director mentions Pythagoras (who lived in this region in the 6th century BC):

"We have our four lives that fit into each other. The man is a mineral because its skeleton is made of salts, the man is also a plant, because his blood is like the sap from plants and is an animal because it is mobile and has a knowledge of the outside world. Finally, the man is human because he will and reason. So we need to know four times. "

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The last days of the life of a shepherd: he is old, he has trouble with his herd of goats ... He is sick: he is treated with dust "miraculous" gathered in the church.

One day, he no longer powder (the church is closed.) Surrounded of his goats, he will die ...

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A kid is born ...

Soon fragile, hesitant, he tries to follow the herd but strayed: he took refuge beneath a big tree ...

The tree will be cut to celebrate a local festival ...

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After Day, the tree is sold with charcoal ... I -

"In Calabria nature knows no hierarchy. Every being has a soul. For proof, just eye contact with an animal to hear the sound of coal, which is like a voice, or to observe the floating fir beaten by the wind, which calls everyone to gather. "

(Michelangelo Frammartino)

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Michelangelo Frammartino born in 1968 ... career in the visual arts after studying architecture ...

"quattro volte" is his second feature after "The Gift" also produced in Calabria in 2004.