Weekly Watches: March 13, 2024
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Nostos: il ritorno (1989)
Directed by Franco Piavoli
How do you translate Homer’s Odyssey into film when it relies on the written word for its narrative power? Italian filmmaker Franco Piavoli chose instead to abandon the written word altogether and craft a visual poem based on Homer that relies solely on film language. With barely a line of dialogue (the only spoken lines are a fictional Greek-inspired language), Piavoli makes full use of sound and image to create a stunning meditation on man’s longing for home. While watching, I was reminded of Terrence Malick’s ability to transcend traditional narrative filmmaking (though this has a linear story) and instead convey the inner life of characters through symbolic images. While many events of The Odyssey are trimmed out of the short 85-minute runtime, this works to instead focus on the visualized interior world of Odysseus.
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