Four lives
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Four lives |
| Original title | Le quattro volte |
| Country of production |
Italy Germany Switzerland |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michelangelo Frammartino |
| script | Michelangelo Frammartino |
| music | Paolo Benvenuti |
| camera | Andrea Locatelli |
| cut |
Benni Atria Maurizio Grillo |
| occupation | |
Four lives (Original title: Le quattro volte ) is an Italian film by Michelangelo Frammartino from 2010. The film depicts life in the remote mountain town of Caulonia in southern Italy.
action
The film has no dialogues and no commentary, instead the camera silently accompanies an old goatherd who does his day's work in the lonely Calabrian mountains. He spends the day in the pasture with his goats, and at dusk he makes his way home. A little goat is born and grows up.
A fir tree is to be felled for the rite of a village festival; a mighty tree is selected. The wood is processed into charcoal by charcoal burners using traditional methods.
criticism
The film received widespread critical acclaim. At Rotten Tomatoes , 93% of the reviews are positive, out of a total of 54 reviews. The critical consensus states: “ Four lives is about birth, death and change; the film is a profound and often funny meditation on the cycles of life on earth. "
The film service judged that from “four chapters, four existences” the staging distilled “a quiet, enigmatic-contemplative film that explores the living conditions in the southern Italian mountain world with unpretentious images” and for “thinking and philosophizing about the cycle of life and togetherness of man and nature ”.
Web links
- Four lives in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Four lives at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for four lives . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2012 (PDF; test number: 126 978 V).
- ^ British Film Institute. Le Quattro Volte + Q&A. Director Michelangelo Frammartino talks about Le Quattro Volte BFI Live BFI video
- ↑ Le Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino, 88 mins, U . Jonathan Romney. The Independent on Sunday. May 29, 2011. Review in The Independent on Sunday
- ^ The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on September 2, 2015 (English): "Birth, death, and transformation are examined in Le Quattro Volte, a profound and often funny mediation on the cycles of life on earth."
- ↑ Four lives. Film service , accessed September 2, 2015 .