Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)

I've only seen one Rosi film and it's a masterpiece of Italian New Wave filmmaking Salvatore Giuliano ... so this is right up my cinephile avenue. It's in 4 parts all an hour long, this is to compare and experience with what i'm watching today, and for all through the week, to find some that will take longer, i choose to wade leisurely through everything i see, not the normal way of watching, but it works for me.

The religious title i'm not sure that means it's going to be religious beyond the fact that Italy is very devout when it comes to heritage, the roots of people and their families, religion at it's best unites people together.

An elegy of exile and an epic immersion in the world of rural Italy during the regime of Benito Mussolini, Francesco Rosi’s sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, Levi (Gian Maria Volontè) discovers an Italy he never knew existed, a place where ancient folkways and superstitions still hold sway, and that gradually transforms his understanding of both himself and his country. Presented in its original full-length, four-part version, CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI ruminates profoundly on the political and philosophical rifts within Italian society—between North and South, tradition and modernity, Fascism and freedom—and the essential humanity that transcends all.

1 -- lovely locations, films like this are how i travel to see things as they were, authentic looking, and of a vintage.

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