The other Rome

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Movie
German title The other Rome
Original title Sacro GRA
Country of production Italy , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 2013
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Gianfranco Rosi
script Gianfranco Rosi
production Marco Visalberghi
camera Gianfranco Rosi
cut Jacopo Quadri

The other Rome (original title: Sacro GRA [ ˈsakro dʒi ˈɛrre a ], Italian for "Holy GRA ") is an Italian documentary from 2013 by Gianfranco Rosi . The film was the first documentary to win the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 2013 and has been screened at numerous festivals.

The film describes life along the Autostrada A90 ( Autostrada del Grande Raccordo Anulare , GRA for short ), the ring road that goes around the capital Rome . According to the director, who has been collecting footage for more than two years, the film is inspired by Italo Calvino's novel The Invisible Cities  (1972), in which the explorer Marco Polo describes his travels to the Emperor of China, Kublai Khan .

The cinema release in Germany was on March 26, 2015.

content

Traffic flows day and night on the Grande Raccordo Anulare , the GRA. Rosi portrays eight protagonists who defy exhaust fumes, fine dust and constant traffic noise. It brings people of different origins and social classes together and lets the viewer participate in their everyday lives. He remains largely in the background: He does not conduct any interviews, he does not tell a story. The people he visits are not celebrities or ordinary people, but they are undoubtedly quirky.

There is, for example, the biologist Francesco, who is waging a desperate battle against voracious beetles by listening to the noises of the larvae with a microphone. The decadent Principe Filippo sits enthroned in his ostentatious, tasteless palazzo, which he rents to film productions. Two elderly prostitutes wait tirelessly for customers on the highway. The fisherman Cesare, who pursues his trade in the seventh generation, worries about the future of the local eels. The paramedic Roberto hides new accident victims every day during his dangerous missions. The impoverished aristocrat Paolo from Piedmont, who lives with his grown-up daughter in a very small space in a modern apartment block, chats with her about God and the world. And last but not least, there are the bizarre residents of a new prefabricated building.

criticism

The film received mostly good reviews. The US film criticism aggregator Rotten Tomatoes 80% of the ratings are positive with a total of 15 reviews. The average rating is 7.2 / 10.

The film-dienst judged that the film condensed “the most diverse social spheres” through a “concise montage and complex imagery into a poetic image of time”. Subliminally, the "regret about the dissolution of traditional associations, about social injustice and the loss of social visions" sounds. The film website kino.de remarked that the documentation “takes time for the uneventfulness and its observation”. The result is "loving chronicles whose profane heroes one likes to watch while surviving". However, the film is "by no means a documentary milestone", but "conventionally staged".

Jay Weissberg of the industry journal Variety wrote that "the difference [of characters] alone does not make a film, and without deeper considerations of the personalities or a more convincing plot structure the idea itself remains more fascinating than the final product in retrospect." Deborah Young wrote in the Hollywood Reporter that the film had "nothing cheerful or earth-shattering", but the folk music in the slight off-beat would tie the viewer's interest in the everyday stories, as would the "excellent editing" by Jacopo Quadri.

Awards

The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 2013 ; Rosi also received the Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola Award there . Furthermore, it was Sacro GRA at the Seville European Film Festival in 2013 with the Silver Giraldillo as Best Film Award. At the Golden Ciak Awards , the film won the Golden Ciak for Best Sound and was nominated in the categories Best Camera (Gianfranco Rosi) and Best Editing (Jacopo Quadri).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Other Rome . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 465 K).
  2. ^ Vince l'Italia: Leone d'oro a “Sacro GRA” . In: La Repubblica , 7 September 2013. 
  3. ↑ Franck Nouchi: Pour la première fois, le Lion d'or à Venise récompense un documentaire . In: Le Monde , September 8, 2013. 
  4. ^ Italian documentary Sacro GRA wins Golden Lion . In: BBC News . September 8, 2013. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  5. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed November 13, 2014 .
  6. ↑ a b Deborah Young: Sacro GRA, Tales from Rome's Ring Road (Sacro GRA): Venice Review . In: The Hollywood Reporter , September 5, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013. 
  7. ↑ a b Jay Weissberg: Venice Film Review: 'Sacro GRA' . In: Variety , September 5, 2013. Retrieved September 8, 2013. 
  8. ↑ a b The other Rome - Sacro GRA. film-dienst , 6/2015, accessed on March 17, 2015 .
  9. ^ Sacro GRA (2013). Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved January 29, 2015 .
  10. ↑ mk: Sacro GRA. In: kino.de . Busch Entertainment Media, accessed November 14, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Jay Weissberg: Film Review: 'Sacro GRA'. Variety , September 5, 2013, accessed on November 14, 2014 (English): "Diversity alone isn't enough to warrant inclusion, and without deeper delving into personalities or a more cogent construction, the idea remains more absorbing than the final product. "
  12. ^ Deborah Young: Sacro GRA, Tales from Rome's Ring Road (Sacro GRA): Venice Review. The Hollywood Reporter , May 9, 2013, accessed November 14, 2014 : “There's nothing that could be called hilarious or earth-shaking here, yet these slightly off-beat folk hold viewers' attention with their everyday stories, which are excellently cut by Rosi's regular editor Jacopo Quadri before they become tedius. "
  13. ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database, accessed November 13, 2014 .