Pietro Marcello's "Lost and beautiful" Named an Official Selection for the Film Society of Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films Festival
"Lost and Beautiful" (Bella e perduta)
caught my attention last year when it was shown at the
Toronto Film Festival. Now it's been named in the early selections of the 45th
edition of the New Directors/New Films Festival hosted by the Film Society of
Lincoln Center, which will be held March 16-27 in New York City. This screening
will be its American premiere and will be shown on March 23 and 24.
"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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