Buco
'Il Buco' proves that cinema still has the capacity to astonish.
-- Lee Marshall, Screen Daily
Il Buco
During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe’s highest building is under construction in Italy’s prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders’ venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighboring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino plateau whose solitary life begins to interweave with the group’s journey. Another work of nearly wordless organic beauty that touches on the mystical from the visionary director of Le Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il Buco chronicles a visit through unknown depths of life and nature and parallels two great voyages to the interior.
Winner, Special Jury Prize — Venice Film Festival, 2021
Official Selection — New York Film Festival, 2021
“Breathtaking. Visually stunning. A masterful work of sound and sight. An immersive experience.” ~ Lovia Gyarke, Hollywood Reporter
“Magnificent. A thing of wonder.” ~ Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline
Winner, Special Jury Prize — Venice Film Festival, 2021
Official Selection — New York Film Festival, 2021
“Breathtaking. Visually stunning. A masterful work of sound and sight. An immersive experience.” ~ Lovia Gyarke, Hollywood Reporter
“Magnificent. A thing of wonder.” ~ Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
93
Language
Italian
Director
Michelangelo Frammartino
Writer(s)
Michelangelo Frammartino,
Giovanna Giuliani
Cast
Paolo Cossi,
Jacopo Elia,
Denise Trombin,
Nicola Lanza
Awards:
Nominee, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival
Winner, Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Fran Hoepfner, TheWrap
In 1961, a group of young Italian speleologists — scientists and researchers who study caves — journeyed deep into a heart-shaped crack in the Earth in the Calabrian valley. Michelangelo Frammartino’s “Il Buco” (“The Hole”), a painstakingly accurate recreation of this expedition, is nothing short of ...
Played at
Royal 5.20.22 - 5.26.22
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