poetic suspense

Rogelio 2022-03-21 09:03:30

It's not easy to articulate what the film is "about". Impressive is the open, Arcadia-like visual beauty of southern Italy (I guess Sardinia), in stark contrast to an indescribably ominous undercurrent. The endless golden hillsides, the blue sky, and the helpless child claustrophobic underground like a mole deprived of it all.

What I especially like is the ending, when the protagonist runs towards the kid's captivity in the dark, the camera turns to various nocturnal creatures that are either crawling or hunting, accompanied by a very decent and eerie music that reminds me of Shakespeare. A childlike mix of night terror and obsession in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" or "Macbeth." This poetic eye and ear, combined with the novel imagination of a child, found its forerunner only in Charles Laughton's "Night of the Hunter" in the 1950s.

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