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Islands in the Lagoon
A documentary about the Venetian lagoon, with the words of Diego Fabbri narrating scenes of strips of land swallowed up by the sea, of small boats sailing on the water, of men and women concentrating on their work in a world which is "a false sea and a false land."
| Release : | 1948 |
| Rating : | 6.2 |
| Studio : | Universalia Film, |
| Crew : | Camera Operator, Director of Photography, |
| Cast : | Gino Cervi |
| Genre : | Documentary |
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Simply A Masterpiece
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
This is a short film, some thirteen or fourteen minutes only and appears to have won a documentary prize somewhere. "Isole nella laguna" refers to islands in the lagoon - in this case the islands around Venice. The copy I caught on YouTube was narrated in Italian only with no translation available but the Italian was slow, artistic and well-pronounced and shouldn't discourage those with somewhat of an acquaintance with the language. The images are phenomenal throughout with water and land constantly paired and compared and death not too far in the background. The musical score was composed by someone with a Slavic name and sounds distinctly non-Italian with a Germanic late-Romantic sadness. This is wonderful work and a quite untraditional tour of the backroads of a great city.Curtis Stotlar
