Type:
Film Screening
Audience:
Open to the Public
Building:
Zrinyi u. 14
Room:
412
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 6:00pm
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Date:
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
The Philm Club cordially invites you to the screening of a speechless Italian film,
Le Quattro Volte
Four Times (2010)
Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
Duration: 88 min.
on Friday, May 4 - at 6 pm
Zrinyi 14 / Room 412
"Although most of what we know about the Greek philosopher Pythagoras derives from sources written four hundred years after his death, he is regarded to have been a believer in the doctrine known as the transmigration of souls, the idea that the soul of man can reincarnate in different forms: as man, animal, vegetable, or mineral depending on one's karma. Referred to in Indian tradition as samsara, the idea of transmigration has recently been depicted in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, where Boonmee's son is reborn as a monkey ghost and one of Boonmee's past lives is as an erotic talking catfish.
The doctrine that all things are part of the divine whether a tree, a lump of charcoal, an animal, or a human being is also dramatized in Le Quattro Volte, written and directed by Michelangelo Frammartino. Set in a small village in Calabria in Southern Italy where Pythagoras is said to have lived, Le Quattro Volte is a quietly meditative film that is divided into four sections separated by a blank screen. There is no narration or dialogue other than the dialogue of nature: the bleating of goats, the sheep bells, and the rush of wind blowing through the trees. Frammartino offers no clues or connections to the viewer as to what each segment represents. It is a film, he warns, in which 'the viewer must do all the work.' "
~taken from Howard Schumann's review on IMDb.com: