Baaria - La porta del vento
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Genre: Comedy, World cinema, Drama
Year: 2009
Country: Italy
Language: Sicilian Language, Italian Language
Starring: Nino Frassica, Marcello Mazzarella, Giorgio Faletti, Enrico Lo Verso, Ángela Molina, Nicole Grimaudo, Luigi Lo Cascio, Raoul Bova, Gabriele Lavia, Francesco Scianna, Leo Gullotta, Margareth Madè, Lina Sastri, Monica Bellucci, Laura Chiatti, Beppe Fiorello, Margareth Madè
Baarìa is a 2009 Italian film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It was the opening film of the 66th Venice International Film Festival in September 2009.
The film recounts life in the Sicilian town of Baarìa, from the 1920s to the 1980s, through the eyes of lovers Peppino (Francesco Scianna) and Mannina (Margareth Madè). A Sicilian family depicted across three generations: from Cicco to his son Peppino to his grandson Pietro… Touching lightly upon the private lives of these characters and their families, the film evokes the loves, dreams and disappointments of an entire community in the province of Palermo over five decades: during the Fascist period, Cicco is a humble shepherd who, however, finds time to pursue his passion: books, epic poems, the great popular romance novels. In the days when people go hungry and during World War II, his son Peppino witnesses injustice by mafiosi and landowners, and becomes a communist. After the war, he encounters the woman of his life. Her family opposes the relationship because of his political ideas, but the two insist and get married, and have children.
Subplots include one about a boy running an errand, a living fly locked inside a top, three
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"Baaria is Giuseppe Tornatore's lush and romantic reimagining of the path of one person, a Sicilian who grows, marries, has children, matures and ages, compiling a rich breadth of experiences along the way. It is also the tale of a typical village and the entertaining dynamics of small-town life where everyone knows everyone else's business. Tornatore is a master at recreating memories and the sensations that accompany them. His eye for detail and the magic moment is on full display in a film that will remind many of his magnificent Cinema Paradiso."
Quoting Piers Handling from the TIFF site.
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