Lost and Beautiful
New Directors/New Films 2016
March 16 - 27, 2016
By turns neorealist and fabulist, Pietro Marcello’s beautiful and beguiling portrait of a heroic Campanian shepherd—and of the woes of present-day Italy—responds to real-life tragedy with a bold and generous leap into the mythic. Shot on expired 16mm film stock, the film won two awards at the Locarno Film Festival.
Opens December 9
Pietro Marcello continues his intrepid work along the borderline of fiction and documentary with this beautiful and beguiling film, by turns neorealist and fabulist, worthy of Pasolini in its matter-of-fact lyricism and political conviction. Shot on expired 16mm film stock and freely incorporating archival footage and folkloric tropes, it begins as a portrait of the shepherd Tommaso, a local hero in the Campania region of southern Italy, who volunteered to look after the abandoned Bourbon palace of Carditello despite the state’s apathy and threats from the Mafia. Tommaso suffers a fatal heart attack in the course of shooting, and Marcello’s bold and generous response is to grant his subject’s dying wish: for a Pulcinella straight out of the commedia dell’arte to appear on the scene and rescue a buffalo calf from the palace. With Lost and Beautiful, a documentary that soars into the realm of myth, Marcello has crafted a uniquely multifaceted and enormously moving work of political cine-poetry. Winner of two awards at the Locarno Film Festival. A Grasshopper Film release.
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