"Pietro
Marcello continues his intrepid work along the borderline of fiction and
documentary with this beautiful and beguiling film. Shot on expired 16mm film
stock and freely incorporating archival footage and folkloric tropes, it begins
as a portrait of the shepherd Tommaso, a local hero in the Campania region of
southern Italy, who volunteered to look after the abandoned Bourbon palace of
Carditello despite the state’s apathy and threats from the Mafia. Tommaso
suffers a fatal heart attack in the course of shooting, and Marcello’s bold and
generous response is to grant his subject’s dying wish: for a Pulcinella
straight out of the commedia dell’arte to appear on the scene and rescue a
buffalo calf from the palace. With Lost and Beautiful, a documentary that soars
into the realm of myth, Marcello has crafted a uniquely multifaceted and
enormously moving work of political cine-poetry. "
Film Society
and MoMA members may purchase tickets starting at noon on Monday, February 29.
Tickets will be available for purchase by the general public at noon on Friday,
March 4. For more information, visit www.filmlinc.org.
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