Brockley Jack Film Club presents Michelangelo Frammartino’s 2010 film ‘Le Quattro Volte’.
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, but believes that he can find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
A new goat kid is born. We follow its first few tentative steps, its first games, until it gains strength and goes to pasture. Nearby, a majestic tree stirs in the mountain breeze and slowly changes through the seasons, until transformed into fuel through the ancestral work of the local Calabrian charcoal makers.
A beautiful and poetic vision of the revolving cycles of life and nature in the unbroken traditions of a timeless place, Le Quattro volte appears as the metaphor of a soul that moves through four successive states of being.
But be warned: the film is slow, is almost devoid of dialogue and features many goats.
“The film is an extraordinary achievement – beautiful, moving, mysterious, and, at times, extremely funny… One of those rare works that breaks all the rules of about what cinema “should” be, in order to demonstrate what it “can” be… the freshest and deepest film I’ve encountered in a while…” – The Independent on Sunday
Michelangelo Frammartino / Italy 2010 / 84 min / cert: U
Time: 7.45pm
Place: Brockley Jack Film Club
Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
410 Brockley Road
Brockley
London SE4 2DH
Tickets
£4.50 for members
£7 for non-members
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