Archive of films quattro volte / Le quattro volte

Italy / Germany / Switzerland
2010, 88 min

Section: Open Eyes
Year: 2010

An ill and elderly goatherd, a kid, a majestic fir, and a smoking charcoal kiln are the four protagonists of a captivating and poetic vision of the cycles of life and nature. Set in a Calabrian village, the visual narrative, bereft of dialogue and straddling the line between drama and documentary, received the Europa Cinemas Award at this year’s Cannes festival.


Synopsis

An ill and elderly goatherd treats his hacking cough by drinking water mixed with dust swept up from the church floor. A newborn kid in his herd rises up on its feet and begins to fight for its place in the world. A majestic fir tree, which human beings have appropriated, looks calmly down on the roofs of the village houses. Its grandeur, however, is destroyed when workers come to use its chopped limbs to make charcoal. Man, animal, vegetation, and dust are the four protagonists of stories cyclically linked in one of the most remarkable pictures at this year’s Cannes festival. The visual narrative, bereft of dialogue and straddling the line between drama and documentary, flows as smoothly as life in the Calabrian village where it takes place. In his captivatingly poetic vision of incessant life cycles, Frammartino searches for a way to capture the essence hidden beneath the surface of creatures, things, and events of all kinds. Ermanno Olmi and Robert Bresson resonate in the work of a director who claims that he wanted his narrative "to return dignity to things which generally remain in the background.”

About the director

Michelangelo Frammartino

Michelangelo Frammartino (b. 1968, Milan, Italy) created short films, music videos, and other artistic projects while studying architecture, including the video installations The Eye and the Spirit and The House of the Sleeping Beauties. He teaches cinematography at ENFAP Lombardia, as well as courses in film language and scriptwriting at the Cinelife education center. Since 2005, he has also taught at the University of Bergamo. In 2003 he directed his first feature film, The Gift (Il dono), which received multiple awards at international festivals. Le quattro volte was presented in the Quinzaine des réalisateurs section this year at Cannes.

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About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section: Open Eyes
   
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Screenplay: Michelangelo Frammartino
Dir. of Photography: Andrea Locatelli
Editor: Benni Atria, Maurizio Grillo
Producer: Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa, Susanne Marian, Philippe Bober, Gabriella Manfrè, Elda Guidinetti, Andres Pfaeffli
Production: Vivo film, Essential Filmproduktion, Invisibile Film, Ventura film
Cast: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano
Contact: Coproduction Office

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