The Tree of Wooden Clogs

By Nakia 2022-12-28 09:58:17

Country prose poems flowing on the screen

After watching "The Tree of Clogs" screened at the Shanghai Film Festival, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a rural prose poem flowing on the screen. In the more than 3 hours of film, only three simple farmer stories are told, and God bless them in love in their poor life. Every frame of the picture is amazingly beautiful. Against the background of earth tones, whether it is a field or a city road, it looks like an Impressionist oil painting, precipitating poetry in the hazy cloth...

By Micheal 2022-12-22 12:27:51

Rich and durable, plain and flavorful

Like a documentary rich and engaging, it pays attention to details. There is no special "designed" plot. Naturally, it is flat and light, the emotions are very restrained but touching, not promiscuous but not excessive, just right, especially watching the tragedy in the last scene, there is no child's family crying and screaming, leaving in a row, everything is silent and solemn. , gave a quick shot of the man with red eyes looking back at the family members who were still in the house....

By Onie 2022-12-22 01:39:06

On earth, like walking in heaven

I don’t know if it’s true to the old saying, “disrespectful, familiar with contempt.” Among the many Italian film masters who stand on the same ground as the Vatican, the religious sentiment is very strong, but most of them have a strong political scent. There are a few exceptions. Roberto Rossellini is one, and Pier Paolo Pasolini is also counted, but the most notable one is Elmano O Ermi (Ermanno Olmi). Olmi actually has strong political opinions. He believes in Marxism, but he is also a...

By Brionna 2022-12-03 12:20:05

The poetry of eternal humanity

So far, "The Clog Tree" is the only Olmi's work I have ever seen. I don’t know much about Olmi. Even though I checked his information on the Internet, I still couldn’t piece together a clear image. I really want to know what caused a person born in the 1930s to choose to make a film about rural life in the late 19th century. What's more, it can be made so rich and true, as if the story in the film happened at this moment, and the people in the film are our neighbors. After watching the whole...

By Linnie 2022-12-02 18:22:36

Laughter and sadness

A naturalistic film with a life-stream, even makes it difficult to judge whether it is a feature film or a documentary for a while. The three-hour film is composed of countless fragments and details of life. The combination of the fragments constitutes a picture of the living beings and villages of several villages in northern Italy at the end of the nineteenth century. The performance of non-professional actors adds to the natural and documentary style of this film. This is a film without a...

By Harley 2023-09-26 01:01:37

The landowners never appeared from beginning to end, but it seemed that they could threaten the farmers' lives every moment. Killing an old pig All the men came to help and waited for the money. The widow's cow got sick and pushed the story to The first emotional point. Ten minutes into the ending, the landlord confiscated the cow of the man who peeked at the small tree and drove him out of the house. Everyone watched the man load his belongings into the carriage and leave through the glass....

By Emmanuel 2023-09-18 00:11:53

The world of people may be destroyed, but please leave this movie as the next generation to see that we have lived like this, natural, peaceful and poetic, our difficulties have never been difficult, and our spirit can also be peaceful Everywhere in nature, what we say is efficient and meaningful, but it can also be meaningless. This is not only a hardship in life, but also a time to watch "I have no time to spare, Qingchuan is like...

By Elmer 2023-09-17 18:00:56

Revisit! Omi’s quiet and compassionate work is full of the power of life. The small fragmented scenes are divided into a grand poem about land and life. It is light and heavy. The film focuses on the birth of new life (people, Animals, plants) are endless like the cycle of time. The director keenly grasped the times of social change, and led the audience back to the vicissitudes of a century like a...

By Flavio 2023-08-31 08:13:26

The first film of the Magic City Film Festival. This is a very quiet movie. It is so quiet that you can hear the snoring in the...

By Jaeden 2023-08-23 16:11:29

I don't seem to have seen any good rural-themed movies in...