June 17, 2024 at 6:58 pm
On Tuesday 18 June, at 9.30 pm, the first appointment of “Cinema Sotto Le Stelle” is scheduled in the Stalloni Arena, the historic event curated by the Cinema Office of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with Arci Reggio Emilia and with the contribution of Emilia-Romagna Region, which offers the great masterpieces of cinema in restored versions and films produced and made in our region. The event opens with “The wind blows where it wants” (Italy, 2023) by the Reggio Emilia director Marco Righi, who will be present in the Arena and will dialogue with the public.
Shot in May 2022 in the Apennine mountains, and made with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Film Commission, the film is the second work by Marco Righi who here ideally continues the production line started with his first film, “I giorni of the harvest” (2010). Through a screenplay built on the feelings and emotions of the protagonists, rather than on actions, the film manages to probe dark and often unexplored areas of our unconscious by investigating eternal questions that have to do with God, sin, death and the responsibility of own actions. Through the events of the protagonist Antimo and the characters who surround him, the film explores the themes of the sacred and places spectators in front of a mysterious event and a radical choice, leaving them the freedom to interpret both according to own sensitivity. What emerges is a film full of meditative rigor whose narrative is characterized by a composed contemplative slowness, until an important turning point…
Plot
In a small town in the Emilian Apennines, the young and devout Antimo spends an insignificant life between the parish, modest meetings with his girlfriend and the stable where he works listlessly with his father. One day he meets Lazzaro, a simple and wild guy who works as a boy in the nearby stable. Antimus sees a spark in Lazarus and decides to convert him. The religion he teaches him, however, is not the one he learned in catechism, but his personal and heretical reading of Christianity which drags the two onto unexplored paths which do not foresee a return…
Information
Single entry €4.50. In case of bad weather the screening moves to the Rosebud Cinema. All information on purchasing tickets, reductions and timetables available on the Arci Reggio Emilia website.
