THE MAN WHO WILL COME
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- THE MAN WHO WILL COME
- (L’UOMO CHE VERRÀ)
- 2009, Giorgio Diritti, Italy, 117 min.
- With Greta Zuccheri Montanari, Maya Sansa
“Beautifully shot...marks Diritti as one of Italy’s directors to watch.”
—Lee Marshall, Screen Daily
“Elegant and thoughtful...Strong acting and lack of sentimentality make it a unique film.”
—Natasha Senjanovic, The Hollywood Reporter
Winner of Italy’s Oscar-equivalent Donatello Award for Best Film, THE MAN WHO WILL COME is based on the September 1944 Marzabotto Massacre, in which 800 Italians--mostly women, children, and elderly--were slaughtered by German forces in reprisal for partisan activities. The events are evocatively rendered from the perspective of a mute 8-year-old girl--in the first part, a lovely portrait of a tight-knit rural community that recalls director Diritti’s mentor Ermanno Olmi; in the last act, a hauntingly oblique child’s-eye view of war in the tradition of FORBIDDEN GAMES and COME AND SEE. In Italian with English subtitles. 35mm widescreen. (MR)
