The Hole (2021)
(Il buco)
Country: IT/FR/GER
Technical: col 93m
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Cast: Antonio Lanza, Nicola Lanza
Synopsis:
In 1961 a group of Piedmontese cavers travels south to the Calabrian mountains to explore what turns out to be a 600 metre chasm in the middle of the pasture of a flat-bottomed valley.
Review:
As with Le quattro volte, Frammartino chooses a scenario that has no need for dialogue, since the images, and one sound in particular, speak for themselves. Tellingly, it is the face of an aged shepherd that constitutes the sole human features here: as the speleologists plumb the depths of tunnels it has taken millennia to form, above ground we bear witness to the eternal, yet living and breathing, landscape. The character of the old man is like one of those yardsticks they place in archaeological digs; it imparts a sense of scale. The pace is geologically slow, which is the point, and nearly every composition is a thing of beauty in itself, the colours perfectly exposed, the play of light and cloud or the twitch of a pulse beneath craggy flesh reassuring after the cold reflective surfaces of the caves.
(Il buco)
Country: IT/FR/GER
Technical: col 93m
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Cast: Antonio Lanza, Nicola Lanza
Synopsis:
In 1961 a group of Piedmontese cavers travels south to the Calabrian mountains to explore what turns out to be a 600 metre chasm in the middle of the pasture of a flat-bottomed valley.
Review:
As with Le quattro volte, Frammartino chooses a scenario that has no need for dialogue, since the images, and one sound in particular, speak for themselves. Tellingly, it is the face of an aged shepherd that constitutes the sole human features here: as the speleologists plumb the depths of tunnels it has taken millennia to form, above ground we bear witness to the eternal, yet living and breathing, landscape. The character of the old man is like one of those yardsticks they place in archaeological digs; it imparts a sense of scale. The pace is geologically slow, which is the point, and nearly every composition is a thing of beauty in itself, the colours perfectly exposed, the play of light and cloud or the twitch of a pulse beneath craggy flesh reassuring after the cold reflective surfaces of the caves.
(Il buco)
Country: IT/FR/GER
Technical: col 93m
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Cast: Antonio Lanza, Nicola Lanza
Synopsis:
In 1961 a group of Piedmontese cavers travels south to the Calabrian mountains to explore what turns out to be a 600 metre chasm in the middle of the pasture of a flat-bottomed valley.
Review:
As with Le quattro volte, Frammartino chooses a scenario that has no need for dialogue, since the images, and one sound in particular, speak for themselves. Tellingly, it is the face of an aged shepherd that constitutes the sole human features here: as the speleologists plumb the depths of tunnels it has taken millennia to form, above ground we bear witness to the eternal, yet living and breathing, landscape. The character of the old man is like one of those yardsticks they place in archaeological digs; it imparts a sense of scale. The pace is geologically slow, which is the point, and nearly every composition is a thing of beauty in itself, the colours perfectly exposed, the play of light and cloud or the twitch of a pulse beneath craggy flesh reassuring after the cold reflective surfaces of the caves.