The film, set in the “Paese” of the title, is an emotional story that takes place in the days after the end of the Second War in a mountain landscape.
Balanced combination of rural poetry, drama in deafrin, evocation of a forgotten “how we were” and female discovery of life, “Vermiglio” It is the second work of Maura delperoan artist who seems to follow the path of the poet of humility and humanity Ermanno Olmi.
Vermiglio, little commune of Trent-High Adiguo near Switzerland and Austria. Winter, thick snow, imposing mountain landscape over a deep valley. The children walk well warmed to the room that officiates from school, where he receives them, without distinction of ages, an authoritarian but smooth voice, high, of striking mustaches: the teacher.
The Second War is ending. People turn off the lights when they feel the snoring of the planes at night. The people hidden two deserters. One always lived there, the other is a Sicilian Rubio who has been given refuge in a kind of shed. Over time, that young foreigner will also go to the school, because he is illiterate. And the scene is beautiful in which what has been learned to publicly confess in love with the teacher’s daughter. The eldest daughter of a large family.
The simple employer party, spring, a marriage and two births, the end of the war and several other things that children observe, and one day, unexpectedly, the news of a misfortune that nobody imagined and that collapse the certainty of that ancient world will arrive in succession. Something has to change, someone has to start their own life on a very different side, and maybe it is for good.
Maura delpero This story tells with great knowledge of the place and customs because that is the land of its elders. But he also does it with a lot delicacy, skill, precise choice and management of interpreters (several non -professionals), beautiful images and affection for all the creatures that appear there, even by the old headers of the bar, in whom the hard dialect of that is more marked paese. And all that resonates in the soul with a quiet, inhabitual, sincere emotion.
“Vermiglio” (Italy-France-Belgium, 2024); Dir.: Maura Delpero; Int.: Tommaso Ragno, Martina Scrinzi, Roberta Ravelli, Carlota Gamba.
Source: Ambito
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