Il Buco

Name: Il Buco
Genre: Drama
Released: May 13, 2022
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Antonio Lanza, Carlos José Crespo, Claudia Candusso, Denise Trombin, Federico Gregoretti

2022

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| Release Date: May 13, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Antonio Lanza, Carlos José Crespo, Claudia Candusso, Denise Trombin, Federico Gregoretti, Giovanbattista Sauro, Jacopo Elia, Leonardo Larocca, Mila Costi, Nicola Lanza, Paolo Cossi

Summary: During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe’s highest building is being built in Italy’s prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders’ ventureDuring the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe’s highest building is being built in Italy’s prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders’ venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighboring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino plateau whose solitary life begins to interweave with the group’s journey.… Expand

Director: Michelangelo Frammartino

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Christopher Machell

Jun 12, 2022

In one sense, Il buco is a testament to human hubris, contrasting the self-satisfaction of our own temporary structures with the unknowable depth of nature’s works. Read full review

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Fran Hoepfner

May 12, 2022

Il Buco is riveting and bewitching, a wholly immersive film, led soulfully by Frammartino’s confidence in saying less. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

Sep 12, 2021

One could walk away with deep thoughts about modernity and the relationship between nature and man, but that’s not required. Appreciating the beauty of an intricate process unfolding is more than enough. Read full review

The Guardian Xan Brooks

Sep 12, 2021

It’s not quite a documentary, yet nor is it exactly a narrative feature. It lives alone; the cinematic equivalent of a hermit on a mountaintop. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Sep 12, 2021

Il Buco proves that cinema still has the capacity to astonish in a very innocent, childlike way as a medium in which light illuminates a black screen and creates beauty. Read full review

Keith Watson

Sep 18, 2021

The film meticulously evokes a 1961 speleological expedition, but its search for thematic resonance is frustratingly general. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Sep 12, 2021

A docufiction that tenderly, wordlessly and rather too obliquely recreates a 1961 speleological expedition to measure the depth of an unexplored crevasse in Italy’s Calabria region. Read full review

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