LE QUATTRO VOLTE New Auteurs

In Michelangelo Frammortino’s astounding new film, a soul journeys through four different vessels. First
inhabiting on elderly shepherd who suffers from a hectoring cough, it drifts through a medieval Calabrion
village and its bucolic outskirts, taking on other forms – animal, vegetable and mineral. Along the way,
Frammortino’s camera, gently switching from a heavenly perch and a grounded view, watches with monastic
serenity as life goes on. Goats room. Seasons change. A bore, towering fir is scaled during a winter carnival.
Workers tend to a smoldering dome they build from branches and dirt. Clouds drift, smoke eddies.
Lyrically blending documentary observation and cosmic fiction, LE QUATTRO VOLTE is pure cinema. Equally
entrancing and entertaining, right down to a prodigious single-take set piece amid a bustling religious
procession, Frammortino’s film takes on a complex concept and translates it to the screen with profound
clarity. Poignant and mysterious, LE QUATTRO VOLTE con justly be called life-affirming.