My second Olmi film after Il Posto and he's the only filmmaker after Bresson and Ghatak to move me so affectedly with his spirituality.
The quality that impressed me most about this film was that he captured life so naturally without abstraction. It felt as if life was unfolding with its natural rhythm in front of my eyes. This is very difficult because every choice that an artist makes subtracts some complexity out of reality. Not here, at least not to me. Brilliant. And his power to record and transform subtle, everyday wonders into spiritual miracles almost brought me to tears.
The quality that impressed me most about this film was that he captured life so naturally without abstraction. It felt as if life was unfolding with its natural rhythm in front of my eyes. This is very difficult because every choice that an artist makes subtracts some complexity out of reality. Not here, at least not to me. Brilliant. And his power to record and transform subtle, everyday wonders into spiritual miracles almost brought me to tears.