Le Quattro Volte ~ Dir. Michaelangelo Frammartino ~ Cinema viewing
Do NOT get this out on DVD if it ever makes it to that format. I suspect the person doesn't exist who would have the necessary patience to sit through this piece of Art movie in a home setting with all the distractions around. I doubt it will ever make it to a cinema near you unless you have the sort of place that enjoys showing last year's Reykjavík International Film Festival winner
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To say that it's slow would be an understatement, glacial would be closer. There is no dialogue and no story in the conventional sense of the word. It's not funny and there's definitley no shagging. A reviewer on IMDb gave this:
Run, don't walk, from this movie. It is excruciatingly boring and this from a person who likes slow movies. Think minimum of one-minute-long takes focused on the same subject where absolutely nothing happens. The message was supposed to be quite deep, I suppose, but it really wasn't "all that" – instead rather mundane. Numerous flaws were evident – the same goat wasn't even used throughout "the goat's" life (you could see from its markings), and at one point you could see that it was tied up so that it couldn't go far where instead it was supposed to have been stuck in a ditch. The landscape and village shots were supposed to be very beautiful, but actually they were nothing special and the colour washed out, at that. At one of the scenes which was supposed to be beautiful, I actually closed my eyes to rest from the crushing monotony of the film...
Alternatively, if you like goats, there are plenty of them and some stunning, Calabrian landscape. I had worked out that Le Quattro Volte means 'the four turns' and this is the key to unlocking the riddle that is the film. If you're feeling in a meditative and reflective mood and fancy pondering the Pythagorean conjecture or four reincarnations then set aside a few hours to go and see it.
IMDb gives it 7.5 / 10 ... I imagine a VP rating would be more like
