Small Body (2021)
(Piccolo corpo)
Country: IT/FR/SLO
Technical: col 89m
Director: Laura Samani
Cast: Celeste Cescutti, Ondina Quadri
Synopsis:
Somewhere in the northern Adriatic at the end of the nineteenth century: a desperate but determined girl leaves her fishing community on the coast with her stillborn child on her back. She has been told of a chapel in the mountains which will baptise her baby if it takes but one breath of air. She meets and is guided by a young gypsy boy.
Review:
This profoundly spiritual film is set in a land of dialects, apparently lost in time, and has a singularly magic realist conclusion. Without doubt of the 'handheld-shallow focus-extended shot length' school of contemporary filmmaking, it nonetheless charts a journey full of incident and minor miracles, and seems to speak for outcasts everywhere rather than the rules of organised religion, or even common sense.
(Piccolo corpo)
Country: IT/FR/SLO
Technical: col 89m
Director: Laura Samani
Cast: Celeste Cescutti, Ondina Quadri
Synopsis:
Somewhere in the northern Adriatic at the end of the nineteenth century: a desperate but determined girl leaves her fishing community on the coast with her stillborn child on her back. She has been told of a chapel in the mountains which will baptise her baby if it takes but one breath of air. She meets and is guided by a young gypsy boy.
Review:
This profoundly spiritual film is set in a land of dialects, apparently lost in time, and has a singularly magic realist conclusion. Without doubt of the 'handheld-shallow focus-extended shot length' school of contemporary filmmaking, it nonetheless charts a journey full of incident and minor miracles, and seems to speak for outcasts everywhere rather than the rules of organised religion, or even common sense.
(Piccolo corpo)
Country: IT/FR/SLO
Technical: col 89m
Director: Laura Samani
Cast: Celeste Cescutti, Ondina Quadri
Synopsis:
Somewhere in the northern Adriatic at the end of the nineteenth century: a desperate but determined girl leaves her fishing community on the coast with her stillborn child on her back. She has been told of a chapel in the mountains which will baptise her baby if it takes but one breath of air. She meets and is guided by a young gypsy boy.
Review:
This profoundly spiritual film is set in a land of dialects, apparently lost in time, and has a singularly magic realist conclusion. Without doubt of the 'handheld-shallow focus-extended shot length' school of contemporary filmmaking, it nonetheless charts a journey full of incident and minor miracles, and seems to speak for outcasts everywhere rather than the rules of organised religion, or even common sense.