The best thing about watching this film was coming to IMDb to read the reviews, and have a good laugh. This is possibly the most tedious, self-indulgent, sententious and risible film I have ever seen. Yes, yes, I get the point: dust to dust, ashes to ashes, charcoal to charcoal.......reincarnation, the rituals of life, etc. All fine and thought provoking concepts. Trying to do it in cinematic terms with three-hour* takes of trees blowing in the wind and endlessly repeating shots of landscape with (gosh!) clouds and sky just doesn't work (*I exaggerate. I meant two-hour). I couldn't believe how some reviewers have fallen for it and praised this film to its arty-farty wide-angle skies. Some of the comments about Pythagoras and the four aspects of life (human, animal, vegetable, mineral) are interesting and insightful and may be true, but the film manages to make them about as captivating as a long shot of watching the paint dry on a right-angle triangle. Beautiful but dull, dull, dull. And by the way, I'm writing this review in southern Italy where I know a little bit about Italian village life - I can tell you, it's a heck of a lot more exciting than this!
Review of Le Quattro Volte
