Il buco
Directed by:
Michelangelo FrammartinoScreenplay:
Michelangelo FrammartinoCinematography:
Renato BertaCast:
Claudia Candusso, Paolo Cossi, Mila Costi, Carlos José Crespo, Jacopo Elia, Federico Gregoretti, Giuseppe PizzatiVOD (1)
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During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe’s highest building is being built in Italy’s prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders’ venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighbouring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino plateau whose solitary life begins to interweave with the group’s journey. Another work of nearly wordless organic beauty that touches on the mystical, Il buco chronicles a visit through unknown depths of life and nature and parallels two great voyages to the interior. (Venice International Film Festival)
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I stared into the hole, and it stared back at me. Then I closed my eyes, and we didn’t have much more to say about it.
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A group of young spelunkers explores a large fissure in the earth. An old shepherd who has spent his life grazing cattle around it dies peacefully. Purpose, humility, comparison, joy, peace. I loved every character here. Claustrophobics, however, will consider this a horror movie.
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