2010 · drama
Four Times (Le Quattro Volte)
Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino1h 28m2010
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
Our read: Four Times (Le Quattro Volte) (2010) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, inventive drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, slow-burn, gentle drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- slow-burn
- gentle
- inventive
- signature
- intimate
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