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Director: Francesco Rosi
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This adaptation of Carlo Levi's autobiographical book awkwardly bridges the space between Rosi's justly celebrated political dossier thrillers (The Mattei Affair, Lucky Luciano, Illustrious Corpses) and his more recent Three Brothers, and has to be counted a major disappointment. Covering the period of Levi's Fascist-imposed exile to the southern Italian region of Lucania in the '30s, Rosi ditches analysis to allow the desolate landscapes and faces of a remote peasant culture (seen as somehow beyond ideology) to tell their own tale. An unfortunate tendency to sentimentalise mars even this limited schema, though, and Volonté's suitably humbled Levi is even followed around by a Disneyesque dog.Author: PT
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- andrew birch said...
- Posted on Nov 11 2007 01:30 A beautifully observed and moving film - forget Time Out's typically pompous review. I saw nothing of the "Disneyesque dog" which no doubt exists only in the reviewer's imagination.
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Cast & crew
Director: Francesco Rosi
Producer: Franco Cristaldi, Nicola Carraro
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari, Irene Papas, François Simon full cast
Duration: 155 mins
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