28/41
1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of a local teacher and his love for the teacher’s eldest daughter will change the course of everyone’s lives. Official Italian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards in 2025. Mentioned in Close-Up: Why do We Need the Film Festival? (2024). Beautifully shot and well-acted, but nothing of interest happens in its 2-hour running time. Too many plot threads are started but never completed; there are too many characters to allow for any depth of characterization or for the audience to identify with any of them. There is no discernible message or revelation. The film is clearly made to please the art-world snobs who provide the subsidies that make such public films possible. To this end, the director is so keen to keep things serious that he allows no trace of humor: everyone behaves with what the Germans call animal seriousness.
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