VERMIGLIO World Cinema

VERMIGLIO

October 27 screening to be followed by a conversation with director Maura Delpero.

Director Maura Delpero examines the intersection of midcentury gender politics, imposed tradition and religion in this year’s Silver Lion Grand Jury Winner from the Venice Film Festival. It is 1944 in the remote alpine village of Vermiglio, Italy. Removed from the immediacy of World War II, a big family lives under a strict patriarch, Cesare (played by a hard-headed Tommaso Ragno), who serves as the highly respected local schoolteacher. His wife, Adele (Roberta Rovelli), tends to their dairy cow and their handful of offspring, including obedient Ada who has her little secrets; intelligent, booksmart Flavia; and the oldest, reserved Lucia who longs for a different future. Under the guise of structure in church, school and chores, their ordinary routines seem idyllic, that is, until the arrival of a young army deserter threatens to change the trajectory of everyone’s lives. Against the backdrop of the ravishingly austere mountain vistas beautifully realized by cinematographer Mikhail Krichman (THE RETURN, LOVELESS), family secrets and devastating lies are unearthed in this evocative melodrama. –Anna Li

Maura Delpero was born in Bolzano. Her debut fiction feature MATERNAL was presented in competition at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival and earned her the Kering Women in Motion Young Talent Award at the 73rd Cannes Film Festival. VERMIGLIO, her second film, premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize.

Caroline Friedman
Sideshow Pictures
caroline@sideshowpictures.com

Details

Country: Italy, France, Belgium

Year: 2024

Director: Maura Delpero

Screenwriter: Maura Delpero

Producers: Francesca Andreoli, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, Maura Delpero, Santiago Fondevila Sancet

Director of Photography: Mikhail Krichman

Editor: Luca Mattei

Production Designer: Pirra

Costume Designer: Andrea Cavalletto

Music: Matteo Franceschini

Cast/Featuring: Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari

Running Time (minutes): 119

Language: Italian

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