Corpo Celeste
Writen by Alice Rohrwacher
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
2011, Italy
Corpo Celeste acts as a guide for the uninitiated into the oppressive realm of religious fundamentalism and traditional thinking. The lens under which viewers examine this heady subject matter belongs to a budding adolescent named Marta (played with precocious dignity by newcomer Yile Vianello). Marta has spent most of her formative years growing up in Switzerland, but at the outset of the movie she and her mother have recently returned to Calabria, Italy, the village of Marta’s birth. Her initiation into what feels like a completely alien society comes with catechism classes, since life in Calabria revolves entirely around the Catholic faith. Marta is only marginally acquainted with Catholicism, but she must suffer through confirmation if she hopes to gain acceptance or if she ever wants to get married.
Debut filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher achieves no small task in...
Writen by Alice Rohrwacher
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
2011, Italy
Corpo Celeste acts as a guide for the uninitiated into the oppressive realm of religious fundamentalism and traditional thinking. The lens under which viewers examine this heady subject matter belongs to a budding adolescent named Marta (played with precocious dignity by newcomer Yile Vianello). Marta has spent most of her formative years growing up in Switzerland, but at the outset of the movie she and her mother have recently returned to Calabria, Italy, the village of Marta’s birth. Her initiation into what feels like a completely alien society comes with catechism classes, since life in Calabria revolves entirely around the Catholic faith. Marta is only marginally acquainted with Catholicism, but she must suffer through confirmation if she hopes to gain acceptance or if she ever wants to get married.
Debut filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher achieves no small task in...
- 6/12/2012
- by Kenneth
- SoundOnSight
This accomplished, naturalistic tale of a girl preparing for her confirmation in southern Italy feels autobiographical
This first fiction feature from a 30-year-old Italian director feels densely observed, transparently personal and autobiographical, despite being notionally based on a novel of the same name by Anna Maria Ortese. Marta, played by non-professional newcomer Yle Vianello, is a 13-year-old preparing for confirmation in southern Italy under the tutelage of Don Mario, a withdrawn and jaded priest, secretly angling for a more prestigious living elsewhere. He is played by Salvatore Cantalupo, last seen here in Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah. Marta and the other kids are being coached by the motherly, stressed-out Santa (Pasqualina Scuncia) who has to deal with her complex feelings of betrayal at Don Mario's plans, which climax in his faintly bizarre quest to salvage a crucifix from an abandoned church in his home village – whose elderly priest has an ambiguous,...
This first fiction feature from a 30-year-old Italian director feels densely observed, transparently personal and autobiographical, despite being notionally based on a novel of the same name by Anna Maria Ortese. Marta, played by non-professional newcomer Yle Vianello, is a 13-year-old preparing for confirmation in southern Italy under the tutelage of Don Mario, a withdrawn and jaded priest, secretly angling for a more prestigious living elsewhere. He is played by Salvatore Cantalupo, last seen here in Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah. Marta and the other kids are being coached by the motherly, stressed-out Santa (Pasqualina Scuncia) who has to deal with her complex feelings of betrayal at Don Mario's plans, which climax in his faintly bizarre quest to salvage a crucifix from an abandoned church in his home village – whose elderly priest has an ambiguous,...
- 3/30/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Corpo Celeste
Writen by Alice Rohrwacher
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
2011, Italy
Corpo Celeste acts as a guide for the uninitiated into the oppressive realm of religious fundamentalism and traditional thinking. The lens under which viewers examine this heady subject matter belongs to a budding adolescent named Marta (played with precocious dignity by newcomer Yile Vianello). Marta has spent most of her formative years growing up in Switzerland, but at the outset of the movie she and her mother have recently returned to Calabria, Italy, the village of Marta’s birth. Her initiation into what feels like a completely alien society comes with catechism classes, since life in Calabria revolves entirely around the Catholic faith. Marta is only marginally acquainted with Catholicism, but she must suffer through confirmation if she hopes to gain acceptance or if she ever wants to get married.
Debut filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher achieves no small task in...
Writen by Alice Rohrwacher
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
2011, Italy
Corpo Celeste acts as a guide for the uninitiated into the oppressive realm of religious fundamentalism and traditional thinking. The lens under which viewers examine this heady subject matter belongs to a budding adolescent named Marta (played with precocious dignity by newcomer Yile Vianello). Marta has spent most of her formative years growing up in Switzerland, but at the outset of the movie she and her mother have recently returned to Calabria, Italy, the village of Marta’s birth. Her initiation into what feels like a completely alien society comes with catechism classes, since life in Calabria revolves entirely around the Catholic faith. Marta is only marginally acquainted with Catholicism, but she must suffer through confirmation if she hopes to gain acceptance or if she ever wants to get married.
Debut filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher achieves no small task in...
- 9/23/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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