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Film – VERMIGLIO Mauro Delpero, Italy / France / Belgium, 2024, 119m, 15, sub-titles, F-rated
17 August @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Italy, 1944. The tiny Alpine village of Vermiglio cowers under the weight of tradition that governs the lives of its inhabitants. The local schoolteacher Cesare oversees his seven offspring with an ironclad sense of preordination. His eldest and most docile daughter Lucia, apparently the only one without guilty secrets, is the most susceptible to the upheaval that the arrival of Pietro, a Sicilian deserter, brings. Before long she and Pietro are married, but what follows is a revelation from Pietro’s past which scandalises the village and inadvertently leads to Lucia’s casting aside the fate which threatened to stifle her.
Breathtakingly photographed with a rich palette of earthen hues, this historical domestic epic achieves something which so many films of its type ignore in favour of spectacle – a quiet realism that draws the viewer irresistibly into its world so that you feel like you are living life alongside the characters. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize (Silver Lion) at last year’s Venice Film Festival.
“Pulsates with harsh, anguished emotion, thanks in no small part to splendid visuals that make it the most beautiful film of the year” – The Daily Beast.
“…a richly compassionate, emotional and detailed drama of family secrets in the wartime Italian countryside… wonderfully acted with unaffected naturalism by its cast of professionals and newcomers” – The Guardian.
“It is magnetic and absorbing fare, and one of the finest dramas of the year” – Filmhounds.
Doors and bar at 5:30pm, film starts 6:30pm. Tickets – £9 / £7 concessions (members of WSC, Bath Film Society, Limpley Creative and The Arts Society Bath).
