- Category: Video » Foreign Films » Italian
- Format: DVD Learn more about the DVD format using Tower WIKI.
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- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC/EAN: 741952301394
- WAPI (Tower ID): 107026336
- Studio: KOCH Entertainment Distribution
- Release Date: July 13, 2004
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #28446 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
- #1006 in Foreign Films (See Top 100 Foreign Films Bestsellers)
- #87 in Italian (See Top 100 Italian Bestsellers)
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Product Description
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Review
New York Times, 06/01/1979, p.C8, "...It may well be a masterpiece....A profoundly serious film that stands outside time and fashion." New York Times, 12/30/1979, p.II:1, Included in the New York Times's "10 BEST FILMS OF 1979" Sight and Sound, 05/01/2002, p.62, "...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..." USA Today, 11/30/1990, p.3D, "...A slow, lovely, three-hour Ermanno Olmi movie about Italian peasants..." Total Film, 11/01/2007, p.140, 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."
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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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