Special Classic Really Long Films
Really Long Films, Volume 2

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

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Ermanno Olmi’s meditative recreation of 19th century peasant life in Bérgamo (40km north of Milan at the foothills of the Alps) is as close to a cinematic time machine as you’ll ever get. All ‘actors’ in the film are local farming families, conversing solely in the regional dialect that is indecipherable outside of the region. Olmi merely registered the daily lives of this community dictated by the seasons, but did so in a striking, almost cinéma vérité fashion that strips all cinematic flair and lays bare the mundane in all its simplistic beauty. We realize the above synopsis reads as the most Capitol A Arthouse ‘farmer-goes-on-road-trip-to-sell-chicken’ cliché, but do not let that deter you. The Tree of Wooden Clogs is brilliant. Bergamasque dialect with English subtitles and an intermission.

Credits

Regie
Ermanno Olmi
Cast
Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari
Genre
drama
Speelduur
187 minuten
Land
Italië
Taal
Italiaans
Ondertiteling
Engels

Storyline

On a northern Italian farm, Batistì and his wife decide to send their son Minec to school, sacrificing his help in the fields but hoping to break the cycle of poverty in the family. But when Minec’s shoe breaks while walking for miles, Batisti puts the family’s future at risk to replace the clog.