Michelangelo Frammartino directs this drama based on real events in which we discover, together with cavers, one of the deepest caves in the world.
If Michelangelo Frammartino’s cinema aspires to anything, it is to see beyond the surface, something he achieves both literally and metaphorically in ‘Il buco’, his new work after ‘Le Quattro Volte’ (2010). again in search of the immersive experience somewhere between documentary and fiction, the film builds a story that combines the recreation of an expedition by a group of speleologists in 1961, who plunged into the depths of the Bifurto Abyss in Calabria, with the life of a local shepherd. Both scenarios are connected through sounds and images that invite us to observe, wander through the planes and move us with the magical simplicity of a sublime landscape. Meanwhile, the memories of the world begin to resurface, whether in the unexplored paths of an ancient cave or in the aged skin of an old man who throws messages to the wind. Soon the borders of the parallel montage blur and the underground is also the subcutaneous, and the secrets of the earthly are also those of the human soul.
To stop time and see the world from a new perspective
DATA SHEET
Address: Michelangelo Frammartino Distribution: Leonardo Larocca, Claudia Candusso, Mila Costi, Carlos José Crespo Country: Italy Year: 2021 Release date: 09–09-2022 Gender: Drama Script: Michelangelo Frammartino, Giovanna Giuliani Duration: 93 min.
Synopsis: In August 1961, cavers from the burgeoning north of Italy arrive on a plateau in Calabria where time seems to stand still. The intruders discover one of the deepest caves in the world, the Abyss of Bifurto, under the gaze of an old shepherd, the only witness of the virgin territory.
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