Fortini/Cani
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Date: January 01, 1976 to December 31, 1976
Dates Note: 1976
Country of Origin:
Italy
Place of Origin: Italy
Languages:
Italian
Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On: based on The Dogs of Sinai by Franco Fortini
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Not Reconciled: The Cinema of Straub & HuilletDescription:
A man reading aloud from a book may be for some the end of cinema, but in Straub and Huillet’s hands it represents a beginning. Their aesthetic of spoken word plus projected image was boiled to its essence in 1976’s Fortini/Cani, a cine-essay that features the legendary Italian New Left figure Franco Fortini, who fought with the Italian antifascist resistance during World War II. Fortini reflects on his communist past and complicated Jewish identity, while the image captures an idyllic Italian countryside where, years earlier, partisans were massacred by Nazi soldiers. Few films are as minimal, yet as rich, as this.
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