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Film still from BELLA E PERDUTA. A man with a mask kneels in front of a lying buffalo.
BELLA E PERDUTA

Sat 26.03.
21:00

  • Director

    Pietro Marcello

  • Italy/France / 2015
    87 min. / DCP / Original version with German subtitles

  • with

    With Tommaso Cestrone, Sergio Vitolo, Gesuino Pittalis

  • Original language

    Italian

  • Cinema

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Alberto Moravia once described "crying over the devastated fatherland" and "nostalgia for the peasant world" as central motifs in Pasolini's work. Both return in exemplary fashion in Pietro Marcello's BELLA E PERDUTA, a hybrid film that echoes Verdi's "Nabucco”, in which the prisoners' chorus laments the state of the beautiful and lost homeland. Marcello is guided through this homeland by a buffalo, instead of the protagonist Tommaso Cestrone who died during the shoot. Lush pastures and landscapes contaminated by toxic waste do not add up to a unified image, documentary footage of anti-corruption protests also creates resistance and asks about political responsibility. In the end, loss  and beauty balance each other out. (hp)

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media