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Thursday, Aug 22, 2019
7 PM (110 mins)
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BAMPFA
The Wonders
Cinematography by Hélène Louvart
Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck, Alba Rohrwacher, Sabine Timoteo,
“Rohrwacher’s vivid story of teenage yearning and confusion revolves around a beekeeping family in rural central Italy: German-speaking father, Italian mother, four girls. Two unexpected arrivals prove disruptive, especially for the pensive oldest daughter. The father takes in a troubled teenage boy as part of a welfare program, and a television crew shows up to enlist local farmers in a kitschy celebration of Etruscan culinary traditions (a slyly self-mocking Monica Bellucci plays the bewigged host). Louvart’s lensing combines a documentary attention to daily ritual with an evocative atmosphere of mystery to conjure a richly concrete world that is subject to the magical thinking of adolescence.”
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Alice Rohrwacher
Cinematographer
- Hélène Louvart
Language
- Italian
- French
- German
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 110 mins
Source
- Oscilloscope Laboratories