Le Quattro Volte details
| Formats: | U DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano |
| Director: | Michelangelo Frammartino |
| Genres: | Drama - Gay/Lesbian, World Cinema - French |
| Studio: | FUSION MEDIA SALES |
| Original title | Four Times, The |
| Collections: | October - World Cinema |
| Name | Discs | |
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Le Quattro Volte |
U Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 28 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 10 Oct 2011 |
| Main languages: | Italian |
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By Tom Charity from LOVEFiLMLe Quattro Volte comes from the idea that the soul is reincarnated four times, as man, animal, vegetable and mineral, and it's an unusual film to say the least...
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A wonderful world
By francofantazia (8 reviews) from London , 06 Jun 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
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Nature is beautiful and tragic, and within that we are strange and fantastic. This is more of a poem than a film, its only narrative is the passing of the seasons and life itself (which of course, goes on). It's unique, and for that reason alone, I implore you to see it, but it's also wonderful.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(104)Culture awareness
By a customer , 14 May 2013It is wonderful to see how some people still live - a simple life using age-old methods in a beautiful yet harsh surroundings. Beautifully shot. It made sense by seeing it through to the end.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Pretentious, portentous, vacuous.
By dc1 (1 review) , 27 Feb 2013I have never been moved to write a film review, but this film warrants some comment, if only to counter the ludicrous amounts of misplaced praise it has received from professional film critics who really should know better. The film feels as if it was made by a 17 year-old Film Studies student who has stumbled across the pretty prosaic observations that life and death are part of the same cycle and that all things are connected. The student then decides to make a film to introduce sensitive but not-very-bright 13 year-olds to these ideas, hires a competent photographer, throws in just about every plodding art-house cliche available and produces a work of stunning banality. Pretentious, portentous, vacuous.- Was this review helpful to you?
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modern art
By TommyMartin (1 review) , 14 Jan 2013Old man's coughing is not pleasant. Wonderful filming. Finishes very well in the final 30 minutes with great stills. Apart from the old man coughing you could play this as a loop projected onto a wall and derive great pleasure from it.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Tremendous unconventional cinema
By BenLaw (32 reviews) , 12 Jan 2013Perhaps only an Italian could have made this film. And having heard the director interviewed, perhaps only a Calabrian! This film is 90 minutes long and doesn't have a single word of dialogue. I normally find the phrase 'the scenery was a character' a painful one, but the director's composition is so insightful that it is true and happily so in this case. Indeed, that is one of the many points of this unexpectedly deep film. The director plays with traditional concepts of the protagonist, simultaneously playing with our concept of the purpose of cinema. The film moves from a man as the protagonist against the backdrop of nature, to an ant as protagonist against the landscape of man, to goat as protagonist (!) in a man's village to nature as protagonist before a final wonderful and longing fusion of man and nature. That all sounds either really heavy or really up itself. But the film is so calm and gentle that these ideas only gently nudge themselves in on you. The director's eye for a camera shot is uncanny. The quiet beauty in dust motes in a church, the craggiest of craggy faces, rickety village rooftops, a newborn goat, a towering tree and smoke through a forest, all brilliant. The camera lingers on each of these for long periods, and like great works of art the eye finds something fresh in every part of the screen, a sumptious and emotional delight. And as well as providing fresh ideas about cinema itself, the film deals with the cycle of life, death, rebirth, loss, our interaction with nature, our true place in the world. All of this with no little humour: I defy anyone not to laugh and smile at a goat knocking a pot from a table and baby goats fighting each other to stand on the highest point in the barn. An unexpected, unconventional delight.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Art house piece
By a customer , 12 Jan 2013Filming is great, but the content was so depressing I abandoned it before the end. Guess you have to be grown up for this one.- Was this review helpful to you?
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