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Gigi la legge Review — Gigi la legge (2022) Film Review from the 75th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Alessandro Comodin, starring Pier Luigi Mecchia, Ester Vergolini, Annalisa Ferrari, Tomaso Cecotto, Massimo Piazza, and Rebecca Martin. Two years in a row now, Locarno has hit me with a surprise documentary – that is, a film [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: Gigi LA Legge: A Docu-Drama Hybrid That’s Cold, Sluggish, and Distant [Locarno 2022]...
- 8/14/2022
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
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In the heat of late summer, San Michele al Tagliamento is a humid emulsion of corn fields, cypress trees, and silent streets. Sitting along the border between Veneto and Friuli, in the northeast of Italy, it’s a rural town in which nothing ever happens, everyone knows each other, and the sun throws everything into a somnolent lockdown—the concrete blazing, the air liquid. Ostensibly a portrait of a man and his daily routine, Alessandro Comodin’s The Adventures of Gigi the Law is also a much larger canvas of the place he roams, a landscape teeming with intimations of sinister mysteries and wondrous revelations. What kicks off as a crime procedural swells into a kind of fairytale, and an anonymous stretch of countryside turns into a microcosm where desire and dread, fear and awe leak into one another. Gigi the Law brims with wide-eyed wonder, the same that’s...
- 8/10/2022
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
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