Reviews of (mostly) less well known "indie" films

Tag Archives: Ermanno Olmi

There’s much sipping of soup in this film. A drop of  soup with polenta is about all these simple folks have got to eat. It’s a hard life. We’re at the end of the 19th century in Lombardy in a rough farmstead occupied by several poor peasant families. Olmi – the director – has gathered [...]


In the dozen or so years since I bought this film i must have watched it a dozen or so times. Primarily because of the performance of Rutger Hauer. He’s a down and out Polish miner with a tragic past living in exile under the bridges of Paris. If you know Hauer from his (stereo) [...]



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