“Haze around the moon, snow is coming soon ” Written and directed by Ermanno Olmi, Tree of Wooden Clogs is an understated and meditative drama set in a small Lombard community in 1898. The film follows the fortunes of four peasant families as they work through the year, raising animals, growing crops and looking after…
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The Travelling Players (1975)
‘The Travelling Players’, directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos in 1975, is an epic Greek historical drama following a troupe of actors as they perform a play through the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. The film moves from the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas, through the Second World War and the occupation by the Nazis, to the post-war occupation…
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
“I have to make it clear that not even for a moment is there doubt that it is not a technical but a philosophical question. So that the tonal system in question, through researches, has led us inevitably to a test of faith, in which we ask: on what do we base our belief that…
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