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VOLTE |
Year: 2010
USA: Lorber Films
UK: New Wave Films
Cast: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Countries: Italy / Germany / Switzerland
USA & UK: 88 mins
USA Rated: Not Rated
UK Certificate: U contains one scene of animal birth
USA Release Date: 30 March 2011 (Limited Release - New York)
UK Release Date: 27 May 2011 (Limited Release)
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Synopsis
An elderly shepherd lives in a quiet mediaeval village perched high
on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He still
herds goats but is sick. He believes he can find his medicine in the
dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water
every day.
When a new goat kid is born, the film follows its first few
tentative steps, its first games, until it gains strength and goes
to pasture. Nearby, a majestic tree stirs in the mountain breeze and
slowly changes through the seasons, until transformed into fuel
through the ancestral work of the local Calabrian charcoal makers.
A beautiful and poetic vision of the revolving cycles of life and
nature in the unbroken traditions of a timeless place, LE QUATTRO
VOLTE appears as the metaphor of a soul that moves through four
successive states of being.
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