The Wellington Film Society’s program continues – after Things To Come last week it’s time for the first film of May. Le Quattro Volte sounds like a must see.

And I missed it when it was on at the Film Festival back about seven years ago now.

So we’re lucky to have another chance to view it on that magic big, big screen.

It’s not a film to be spoiled with too much said about it in advance, but I trust A O Scott more of than not. So let’s take his word for it…

Le Quattro Volte, an idiosyncratic and amazing new film by Michelangelo Frammartino, is so full of surprises – nearly every shot contains a revelation, sneaky or overt, cosmic or mundane – that even to describe it is to risk giving something away… In four chapters – the movie’s title can be translated as “The Four Times” – Mr. Frammartino successively chronicles the earthly transit and material transmutation of an old man, a young goat, a tree and a batch of charcoal. Each being or thing is examined with such care and wit that you become engrossed in the moment-to-moment flow of cinematic prose, only at the end grasping the epic scope and lyrical depth of what you have seen, which is more or less all of creation.

Monday, May 7, Embassy, 6.15pm

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