One Hundred Nails
Ermanno Olmi
June 14 - 26, 2019
Originally conceived by Olmi as his final film, this deceptively slight character study neatly summarizes the director’s spiritual and humanist philosophies via the story of a disillusioned religion scholar who leaves behind academia for the simple pleasures of life in the country.
Conceived by Olmi as his final film (though he would ultimately go on to direct two more narrative features), this deceptively slight character study neatly summarizes the director’s spiritual and humanist philosophies. Opening with a shocking crime—a twisted individual has driven stakes through 100 precious books at a university library—the film goes on to follow the perpetrator: a disillusioned religion scholar (Raz Degan) who flees the arid world of academia to rediscover himself amid the simple pleasures of the countryside. Awash in images of impressionist beauty, One Hundred Nails is a paean to that which Olmi loved most: the glory of the natural world and the goodness of everyday people. 35mm print from Istituto Luce Cinecittà.
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