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The Night of the Shooting Stars
Why this pick
Like Olmi’s film, it observes Tuscan rural people with patient, earthy detail, finding communal endurance and flashes of wonder within hardship.
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MOVIE1978 3h 6m ITA
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The Return of Martin Guerre
Why this pick
A tactile, unhurried portrait of sixteenth-century village life, rooted in farming, social ritual and the immense stakes carried by ordinary families.
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The Sicilian Girl
Why this pick
Its close attention to a young person’s moral awakening and the pressures of family and rural community recalls the intimate human scale of Olmi’s work.
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Padre Padrone
Why this pick
This Italian rural coming-of-age drama shares Olmi’s concern with poverty, labor and education, though its father-son conflict is more forceful and severe.
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The Wind Will Carry Us
Why this pick
Its quiet rhythms, village routines and attentive observation of landscape create a similarly humble, contemplative encounter with country life.
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01 / THE STORY
When the family of man was still--- a family.
Life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them for their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They send him to school instead of making him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up early and walk several miles to get to school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy another. What can they do?
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Carlo Rota
Peppino