Lyrical portrait of Gianfranco Rossi

Vesuvius – Samko Name Sounds ancient, rhythmic mythically, so tied into the stories of the destroyed past that someone almost forgets that it is still much in an ordinary, existing present presence. The legendary cone is not exactly like that is large in Gianfranco Rosi‘S “Below the cloud“Wandering, granular documentary study of its surrounding landscape and population. Almost two thousand years after it is a drastic means of living, while still there is still a living around active volcano and this dental movie that interested in interested in everything.

Though It Touches on Contemporary Geopolitics – With Conflicts in Syria and Ukraine Thread Into Its Fraying Urban Tapestry – “Below The Clouds” Seems Less Bedded In Current Events Than Rosi Features like “Notnurno” and the Oscar-nominated “Fire at Sea.” As in these films, however, its observations of individually unusable days and lives are built on something larger and social search. While among his warmest works is rich in the place and weather and human movement, it is not an empty travelogue, regardless of sometimes sparkling beauty roses black and white cinema. After the premiere in the competition in Venice, “under the cloud” should have small problems after other recent director documents in the general distribution of Arthouse.

The title stems from the famous Jean Cocteau Quote who also opens the film: “Vesuvius makes all the clouds in the world.” As he shot Rossi, he feels close to true. Silver blankets stratus floating on the streets, the beaches and surroundings that becomes lyrora than in the countless grapes of Vesuvius, Fumaroles free from the pale recess of volcanic gas and money in the mix. There are also MANMADE smoke, and the type of permanent work of Naples, placing several municipal bodies of ROSI here, in a way of “Frederick Viseman”, and in a way that succumb to Frederick Viseman “.

Of course, there are much more than fire to fight. With his camera, he was constantly planted in the co-seductor center, Rosses, as a patient, bushing boss of crises in the range of a real-working place, as well as an elderly repetitive caller. These are also a point of contact for the observed natural disasters, although they are unspoled with terrified calls when the region is hit by an earthquake of 4.2 magnitude, the largest in the Neapolitan area for 40 years.

Firefighters are available to explore uncovered tunnels and archaeological digs that violated the tomb robbers, a task that is characterized by other organs under the film “Police enrolled Tombaroli, Less daring quarrels here than in Alice Rohrvacher’s beautiful “La Chimera” and local museums that are entrusted to housing and protection of history fragments are legally retreated from a small ground. In the basement of such an institution, the veteran coumnated for a long buried, and still razored statues in 79. years, “it’s happy to throw her lamp, putting their lights in the solution. If you can’t live in The past, you can at least live due to.

Somewhere else in the city, a dedicated teacher manages extracurricular classes for children of various times in the local library, helping them make their tables of multiplication or feeding a harmful literary discussion. Powdered upholstered film screens Rossellini’s “trip to Italy”, between other local named titles, in a blank house. And in the port of Torre Annunziata, Syrian refugees is among the workers in a high industrial silo, which is constantly filled with Ukrainian grains: Naples Bay is also a limbo area for those who wait to rebuild their lives.

Rossi’s monochrome high contrasts are looking for life expectancy and beauty in the region centuries, although at least a bit of food individual shots – including a stroller that is amazing through the cross-beach shiny with morning rain – it is not over interested in the postcard. Sparko experimental result from the recent Winner of the Oscar Daniel Bloomberg (“Brutalist”) Also over print, mixing rarin musical instruments with several sound collection devices – Geofone, hydrophones – for pulling out of grip and marine memory. Vesuvius can find its time, but it becomes a type of voice in Rossi-complicated research.