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  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing his draft – interrupted years earlier – of a book on Borromini. He is accompanied by his wife Alienor who feels her relationship with her husband gradually slipping away along with the passion it used to inspire. Having reached Stresa they hap...

Directed By: Eugène Green

Written By: Eugène Green

  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 41 m

La Sapienza

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing his draft – interrupted years earlier – of a book on Borromini. He is accompanied by his wife Alienor who feels her relationship with her husband gradually slipping away along with the passion it used to inspire. Having reached Stresa they hap...

Directed By: Eugène Green

Written By: Eugène Green

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100
Mar 20, 2015
Easily the most astonishing and important movie to emerge from France in quite some time. While its style deserves to be called stunningly original and rapturously beautiful, the film is boldest in its artistic and philosophical implications, which pointedly go against many dominant trends of the last half-century.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
90
Apr 9, 2015
The unresolvable tension between logic and feeling animates Eugene Green’s La Sapienza, an exquisite rumination on life, love and art that tickles the heart and mind in equal measure.
By Scott Foundas FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 25, 2015
The pace can feel plodding, but the observations on human frailty and redemption more than make up for it. Despite forays into the head, it's the movie's heart that makes it special.
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70
Mar 19, 2015
Talky and cerebral, this theatrical drama juxtaposes space and light and explores ghosts from the past and love in the present.
By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 19, 2015
The movie is an unapologetically rarefied undertaking and at the same time a gracious and inviting film. And it embodies an elegant and melancholy paradox: What looks like tourism is really the pursuit of truth and beauty, and vice versa.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 17, 2015
Combining the knowingly arch style of Abbas Kiarostami (whose "Certified Copy" towers over and belittles this film) with the didactically educational passion of your favorite art professor, La Sapienza alternately feels like a self-reflexive love story or a haunted history lesson—its best scenes play like both.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 17, 2015
While La Sapienza is unsatisfying as drama, it’s frequently beautiful just as a tour through architecturally significant Italian buildings. And it’s intellectually engaging as an elaboration of their larger meaning.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

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Production Company MACT Productions, La Sarraz Pictures, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Rai Cinema, Film Commission Torino-Piemonte, Roma Lazio Film Commission, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT)
Release Date Mar 20, 2015
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.lasapienza-lefilm.com/
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Awards

International Cinephile Society Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Seville European Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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