La Quattro Volte Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino The academic film magazine Sight & Sound has for recent years been charting the emergence of a so called ‘slow’ cinema on the world stage, a type of cinema exemplified by the likes of Bruno Dumont, Bela Tarr or Carlos Reygadas, a strand of film-making where the emphasis …
——— Le Quattro Volte Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino So-called “slow cinema,” perhaps stoked on by the Romanian boom of the last few years, is quickly becoming the standard mode of expression for up-and-coming European arthouse directors who want to make a dent on the international prestige circuit. Of them, Michelangelo Frammartino’s breakthrough feature has been …
“Some viewers will be bored and others entranced, but in either case La Quattro Volte seems destined to provoke discussion…” La Quattro Volte Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino Under its Cinema Europa programme strand, the London Film Festival strives to screen the best of the world’s contemporary European cinema, an experience that can either swing from …