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In 1950, the small Calabrian village of Caulonia still numbered nearly 15,000 souls, but there now remain no more than a few hundred. A phlegmatic old man and a young disabled woman are among the last inhabitants who haunt the deserted village.

Il.dono.2003.USA.576p.BluRay.AC3-STOOD.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 20 min
Size: 	1.93 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	790x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.372
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.275
Audio
#1:  	Italian 2.0ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s (Italian 2.0)

https://nitro.download/view/D847106ADD626C5/Il.dono.2003.USA.576p.BluRay.AC3-STOOD.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Michelangelo Frammartino – Il Dono AKA The Gift (2003) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In 1961, a group of young speleologists mapped one of the world’s deepest caves in the Calabrian mountains. In this fictional story about them, Frammartino constructs a slow but entirely gripping rhythm; we see the cave explorers in extreme long-shot as they prepare tools and each day embark on a perilous journey, venturing further into uncharted crevices. Much of this action is viewed from the perspective of an old, grizzled shepherd moving his herd across the mountains. Almost entirely without discernible dialogue, but featuring arguably the year’s richest sound design, Il Buco unfolds at a spellcasting pace – shifting back and forth between the shepherd and adventurers, and punctuated by glimpses of life in a remote mountain village where the two briefly intersect. This is unique, singular filmmaking from Frammartino. And a film made for the big screen.

1.72GB | 1h 33mn | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8A72CC029466B0E/Il.buco.2021.1080p.WEB.AAC.x264-CHRONOPHOBiA.mkv

Language:Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Michelangelo Frammartino – Il buco AKA The Hole (2021) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
The languid account of a disaster happening in slow motion. The film charts the bleak daily life of a village in Calabria, which once had a population of some fifteen thousand but is now down to a mere handful. An impassive old man and a retarded girl seem to be simply waiting for time to eat away their lives. They are only occasionally and fleetingly roused from their deep apathy by strange objects and sordid encounters. Thus the girl, believed to be possessed by a demon who is the personification of all her repressed sufferings, does indeed offer her attractive body, though not to supernatural forces but to the unfeeling assaults of the drivers from whom she hitches rides. As for the mobile phone found by the old man, although its ringing surprises him, he soon gets bored with it. However much it rings or vibrates, it has to join all those other useless vehicles and forms of communication: boats washed up on the shore, dismembered cars on the roadside: a gallery of inanimate wrecks, appropriate counterparts to the cort?ge of ghosts that passes between them.

696MB | 1 h 16 min | 852×480 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/4896F33DD15BFDA/Il.Dono.2003.SD.UNI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264.mkv

Language(s):No dialogue
Subtitles:None

The post Michelangelo Frammartino – Il Dono AKA The Gift (2003) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.

1.49GB | 1h 28m | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/352ED366ABD4C93/Le.quattro.volte.AKA.The.Four.Times.2010.576p.Bluray.AC3.x264.mkv

Language(s):None
Subtitles:None

The post Michelangelo Frammartino – Le quattro volte aka The four times (2010) first appeared on Cinema of the World.