The Tree of Wooden Clogs (2-DVD)
When the family of man was still--- a family.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Run Time: 3 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 14, 2017
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi & Omar Brignoli | |
Directed by | Ermanno Olmi | |
Screenwriting by | Ermanno Olmi | |
Director of Photography: | Ermanno Olmi |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1978 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
...The non-professional cast gave veracity to scenes of hardship and enterprise during the course of a year, with a particularly moving performance from Luigi Ornaghi...
Sight and Sound
The asceticism of the film accentuates the slowness of a story that is already too prolonged. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
It's easy enough to appreciate...as a painterly near-documentary, shot and edited by a director who got his start in documentary films...or a spacious moral fable about humility and trust in following the righteous path. [Criterion Blu-ray]
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Groucho Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- Ermanno Olmi teases irresistible turns from the non-professional cast and sifts through a world astonishingly rich with detail and beauty.
Total Film
A hypnotic look at a way of life that no longer exists.
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Spectrum Culture
Rating: 3.5/4 --
You don't need to have experienced the film's world firsthand to grasp the transparency with which Olmi depicts it, full as it is with simple pleasures, complex emotions, and unadorned heartbreak.
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 5/5 --
Produces feelings of aching joy and melancholy in equal measure.
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Little White Lies
Product Description:
Dramatizing a year in the life of northern Italian peasants at the turn of the century, Ermanno Olmi's THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS pays loving tribute to both the neo-realist style of filmmaking and a rural way of life that no longer exists. Hoping to create a better life for themselves, a poor family decide to send their young son to school despite the crushing sacrifice involved. When the boy's wooden clogs break on the long journey home, the seemingly minor incident sets into motion a series of tragedies that reverberate throughout the peasants' lives. Olmi's slice-of-life film--which he wrote, directed, shot, and edited--uses this central story as a launchpad to document, in moving detail, rural life under oppressive poverty. As the camera lingers patiently over women handwashing laundry on the banks of a river or farmers preparing a pig for slaughter, the quasi-documentary images transform these mundane tasks of peasant life into an almost sacramental epic of grace and beauty.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 68,373
- UPC: 715515187619
- Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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