Italian director Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo) directs this engrossing suspense thriller involving a 10-year-old boy who lives in rural southern Italy. It is summertime, he discovers a hole in the ground, obscured by wheat, where a starving boy is chained and imprisoned, abducted by the adults in the village.What a revelation: in this film, boys are innocent children, not miniature adults with a sophisticated understanding of the motivations around them.
23 Apr
By Grendel. Posted April 23, 2005 at 10:42 pm. Filed under Watching and tagged film and video. Permalink. Subscribe to this post’s comments.
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… and we’re really sorry to be missing the big event in New York tonight.Please forgive us? For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.~ Wordsworth, from “I Wandered [...]
Our house is there — ought to be as it dates back to 1832 — although this satellite image must be at least 3 years old, more likely 5 years.
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