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The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L''albero degli zoccoli) (1978)
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LanguageEnglish subtitles (builtin)
GenreDrama
TypeMovie
Date 1 decade, 4 years
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The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'albero degli zoccoli) (1978)
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Review:

If there were any reason for dropping out of normal life and dedicating oneself entirely to watching Italian films, this might be it! The majestic simplicity and dignity of this film make even the best contemporary films seem trivial and stillborn by comparison. Loved by sensitive audiences and critics alike, Ermanno Olmi's movie describes incidents in the lives of four families sharecropping in Lombardy at the coming of the twentieth century. Olmi's extraordinary command of imagery, movement, rhythm, and lighting conveys a potent nostalgia for Earth and the family of man. There is a scene in which images of a father carving clogs for his shoeless boy are intercut with the lives of the farm families. The music accompanying that scene is a Bach organ chorale. The effect is almost sacramental and entirely overwhelming and may be one of my favorite scenes in all cinema. That scene alone is worth more than all the digitalized special effects, car crashes, ocean liner sinkings, and the deafening Dolby vapidity of so much of the inane junk embraced undiscriminatingly by so many. If they only had the eyes to see, ears to hear, and the soul to love this wondrous work of art!

Genre............: Drama/History
Year.............: 1978
Country..........: Italy
Director.........: Ermanno Olmi

Source...........: Unknown (Not my rip )
DVD Format.......: PAL
DVD Size.........: 2 x DVD5
Programs used....: -
Screen Format....: 4:3
Audio Language...: Italian
Audio Format.....: MPEG 2.0
Subtitles........: English
Runtime..........: 186 min

Menu.............: [ ] No
Video............: [X] Unknown Compression, but image is ok imho
DVD Extras.......: [ ] No

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