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The Tree of Wooden Clogs
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301861014
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6301861019
Label: Fox Lorber
Languages: English (Subtitled), Italian (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: November 11, 1997
Running Time: 185 minutes
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: June 01, 1979
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Rating:  - A Sweet and Bitter Harvest
As an award-winning Italian film, 'Tree of Wooden Clogs' examines a cross-section of four Italian peasant families during the turn-of-the-century. For nearly three hours we get the full deliberations of people who marry, work the land, and deal with their meager existence. Despite the adversity, they summon peaceful resolve with their Catholic faith while the winds of revolution blow around them with an agitation that garners nothing but their indifference.
The heart of the plot ... Read More
Rating:  - A look at rural Italy and its faith more than a century ago, a springboard to discuss social change
This moving film follows a year in the lives of four Italian tenant-farming families in the late nineteenth century.
Although it is a drama, the film has a strong documentary or ethnographic flavor, portraying the lives of the families, the seasons, the farm animals, country and town, courtship and marriage, and above all faith. The four families live in the same compound, and the plot revolves around events within the compound and the village -- enrolling a boy at school, the sickness ... Read More
Rating: - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
One of Olmi's greatest accomplishments, "Clogs" is a sensitive, verité-style drama that unfolds at a leisurely pace, with indelible, naturalistic performances by the entire cast of nonprofessional actors. Olmi based the film on stories his grandmother recalled about growing up in Lombardy, and the subtle power of this film comes from the calm, unforced manner in which he portrays lives of drudgery and sacrifice. Some scenes stick in the mind, like an old-timer regaling villagers with a ghost story, ... Read More
Rating: - Hard to swallow masterpiece
This three hour movie about the lives of a group of peasants in Northern Italy in the late 19th Century is probably a masterpiece, but is also one of the most conservative movies I have ever seen. Made with a cast of amateur actors, it's a brilliant movie alright, but Olmi's social conservatism is very hard to swallow. In a way, his position seems even more backward than the Catholic Church: while today's Church gives at least some lip service to the idea of redistribution of wealth, Olmi's ideology ... Read More
Rating: - Witness the life of real 19th century peasants
This is not a typical film, even for European standards. Of course it's not a documentary either. So what is it? It's more a document than a documentary, because there seems to be no point of view, no story-teller. We are just there, seeing whatever is going on.
First of all, it is very long: three hours. It is filmed in rather long and slow-pace scenes.
Second: These are real folks, living their peasant lives in northern Italy, doing their daily chores with no tv noise ... Read More
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