The Lamb

Film - 2020

7,5

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The Lamb it's a movie with Nora Stassi, Luciano Curreli, Piero Marcialis, Michele Atzori Full cast. Directed by Mario Piredda. Original title L'agnello, runtime 97 minutes. Genre Drama.

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Little gem from Sardinia of

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Small (on a production level) but precious (artistically) film that touches on important themes with prudent ambition, moving in its harsh and delicate naturalness and in its unshakable attraction to life. Read all

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Emiliano Baglio

Anita (Nora Stassi) is seventeen. She has already lost her mother and now her father Jacopo (Luciano Curreli) is suffering from leukemia and would need a transplant. None of her family members are compatible with her except perhaps her brother Gaetano (Michele Atzori). However, Jacopo and Gaetano have not spoken to each other for years. Let's put our hands forward, The Lamb, Mario Piredda's first work, has some of the typical defects of his early works; first of all the anxiety of wanting to say everything and perhaps too much. In other words, a vigorous snipping would have benefited the film a lot which, from a certain point onwards, begins to get lost and drag on almost as if the director didn't have the courage to leave his characters and felt the need to tell us this story to the end even if this is not strictly necessary. So much so that when it comes to closing the film we find ourselves faced with a genuinely incomprehensible ending which perhaps is meant to be metaphorical but the meaning of which (at least to us) escapes us. And yet, just as the film overflows in a pleonastic way, here comes one of those flashes that illuminates it. Let's talk about the scene in which Gaetano dances in a squalid bar inhabited by unforgettable masks, faces and authentic, raw yet surreal faces. An almost dreamlike scene yet at the same time full of raw realism which underlines the profound solitude of the characters in this story. A solitude and a condition of marginality to which the Sardinian landscape, harsh and windswept, seems to respond ; made of snow-capped mountains and rocks. Sardinia itself seems to be the beating heart of this work, as underlined by the scene in which Anita breaks the carasau bread and points out to her grandfather that every piece recalls the shape of the island. The condition of the characters , essentially the defeated, the marginalized including a sick person, a girl marked by life and a former drug addict, Read all

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Anita is sixteen and she’s facing a difficult situation: her mother died of leukemia and now Jacopo, her father, is also sick: his need for a bone-marrow transplant is increasingly urgent, but the average waiting period for a donor is many months. Anita isn’t compatible, and neither is Tonino, her grandfather shepherd who lives in the nearby tableland, close to a military base which affect the area since the Sixties. There is uncle Gaetano: being Jacopo’s brother the probability that he is compatible is higher, but Gaetano is a hothead and he and Jacopo haven’t had any relationship at all: an old grudge, which they don’t want to forget, is keeping them apart.