The lush, breathtaking beauty of the Alps, with its picturesque grace and natural light, from freezing winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Maura Delpero’s award-winning film Vermiglio at the 2024 Venice Film Festival
This unique portrait of a large family in the small mountain village of Vermiglio in the final days of World War II follows a series of dramatic and consequential events following the arrival of a silent Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico) who has been hiding in the town after deserting the army
During his stay there, the soldier develops a romance with the family’s eldest daughter, Lucia (Martina Scrinzi)
“Vermiglio” depicts the life of a rural family in a remote village suspended in time by the customs of a bygone era
By recalling stories from her own family’s past, Delpero creates a deeply personal and human story that is reminiscent of the great neorealist movement in Italian cinema, but from Lucia’s perspective, “Vermiglio” is distinctive and novel
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