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  • 2022
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2022
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 33 m

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’ ventu...

Directed By: Michelangelo Frammartino

Written By: Giovanna Giuliani, Michelangelo Frammartino

  • 2022
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2022
  • Grasshopper Film
  • 1 h 33 m

Il Buco

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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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’ ventu...

Directed By: Michelangelo Frammartino

Written By: Giovanna Giuliani, Michelangelo Frammartino

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
78
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19% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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19% Mixed
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100
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.
By Christopher Machell FULL REVIEW
90
May 12, 2022
Frammartino connects the physical with the metaphysical. The world as he renders it is an anthology of concrete objects and unrepeatable moments that are somehow infused with abstract, even spiritual meanings.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 12, 2022
The wordless earth magic of the storytelling won’t be for everyone, but the film casts a beguiling spell.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Xan Brooks FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
60
May 11, 2022
In excluding conversation, commentary, analysis, context, and personality, Frammartino is a cinematic Icarus: he strains high for sublimity and finds a deck of picture postcards.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Doppio Nodo Double Bind, Rai Cinema, Société Parisienne de Production, Essential Filmproduktion GmbH, Calabria Film Commission, Ministero della Cultura (MiC), ZDF/Arte, Eurimages, Arte France Cinéma, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Cinereach, Comune di San Lorenzo Bellizzi, Itlalian Speleological Society, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Pollino National Park, Regione Lazio
Release Date May 13, 2022
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Website https://coproductionoffice.eu/films/il-buco
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Golden Ciak Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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