Seven years after Sacro GRA became the first nonfiction feature to win the Golden Lion, Gianfranco Rosi returned to Venice with Notturno. The opening titles succinctly provide context--three years of footage captured adjacent to ISIS-related warfare in Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon--while the first shot immediately re-establishes Rosi's total ability to sculpt reality: groups of soldiers jogging in laps, separate squads with just enough time between one brigade passing and the next that it'...
Venice Film Festival 2020: Notturno, Dear Comrades, In Between Dying
Filmmaker Magazine - 16 Sep 2020 23:15
Seven years after Sacro GRA became the first nonfiction feature to win the Golden Lion, Gianfranco Rosi returned to Venice with Notturno. The opening titles succinctly provide context--three years of footage captured adjacent to ISIS-related warfare in Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon--while the first shot immediately re-establishes Rosi's total ability to sculpt reality: groups of soldiers jogging in laps, separate squads with just enough time between one brigade passing and the next that it'...
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