La Sapienza
With Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Prot Landman, Ludovico Succio.
France/italy, 2014, DCP, color, 100 min.
French and Italian with English subtitles.
DCP source: Kino Lorber
The only—sort of—veteran in this list is a baroque artist born in a powerful country, on the western side of the Atlantic, that he refuses to name and, of course, to visit. Eugène Green explores the resources of classical art and knowledge, confronting very old practices with a contemporary world full of charming people of various ages, as well as various languages: visual, musical, spoken. From Paris to a Swiss lake and, finally, Italy, he takes his viewers on a road trip inspired by a love affair with architecture, but which is in fact an inquiry about beauty, wisdom and dignity. Believe it or not, this is done with, and can be done only with, an incredibly inventive sense of humor that lightens the shadows of the churches built by Borromini, as well as the love and friendship among the strictly designed but very sensual characters whose original way of speaking to each other speaks to us.