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Product Description Having recently returned to her native Italy after living in Switzerland for 10 years, quiet but curious 13-year-old Marta is left to her own devices while her loving but worn-out mother toils away at an industrial bakery. Marta's only source of socialization is the local church, where she is told to attend preparatory classes for her confirmation. But the doctrines of Roman Catholicism offer little in terms of life lessons or consolation, and she quickly sees through the hypocrisy of the priest, who cares more about status than about his constituents. Eventually, Marta forges her very own way of the cross, which turns out to have much less to do with God than with her own climb towards adulthood. Review Official Selection - Sundance Film Festival Official Selection - New York Film Festival Official Selection - Director's Fortnight Cannes Film Festival Official Selection - Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Dubai Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Munich Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - BFI London Film Festival Official Selection - Chicago Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Hamptons Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - St. Louis Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Boulder Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Portalnd Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Miami Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Cleveland Int'l Film Festival ----Sublime & poignant! This is one of the real discoveries of the New York Film Festival. --Howard Feinstein, Filmmaker MagazineFresh & authentic! A quietly impressive feature debut. --Lee Marshall, Screen DailyThe big payoffs arrive in a couple of small, understated moments of grace thanks to Rohrwacher's restrained buildup and direction, they certainly feel well earned. --Boyd Van Hoeij, VarietyThe big payoffs arrive in a couple of small, understated moments of gracethanks to Rohrwacher's restrained buildup and direction, they certainly feel well earned. --Boyd Van Hoeij, Variety P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Director Born in Tuscany, Alice Rohrwacher graduated from Torino University in Literature and Philosophy. She directed a segment in the collective feature film Checosamanca. At 27 years old, CORPO CELESTE is her feature length writing and directing debut. See more Review: Sad and soul crushing - Having grown up in the Irish catholic tradition, the most mean spirited vindictive variation of the ancient faith I always believed the Italians had a much lighter take on the whole thing. Boy was I wrong. This is a wrenchingly sad story of a young girl transplanted from the relatively secular environment of Switzerland to Reggio Calabria a city on the "toe" of the boot shape that is Italy as her mothers health deteriorates. I had always thought that this was a beautiful region but the Calabria shown here is stark gritty, industrial and bleak. The protagonist youthful "Marta" is dealing with puberty and all of its confusions, an older sister who is both protective and emotionally abusive, and the local catholic church where she is being prepared for her confirmation. The parish is run by a disengaged priest who longs for a higher station in the church, a lonely spinster catechism teacher and a stoic menacing sacristan. Marta tries earnestly to believe even as she is ridiculed and the hypocrisy of the church is revealed to her. In the end hers is a painful voyage of discovery, betrayal and crushed faith that will leave one both sad and yearning for her survival and ultimate redemption. Review: The Cup of Salvation. - Corpo Celeste (Alice Rohrwacher, 2011) I don't even remember what originally prompted me to add Corpo Celeste to my Netflix queue. I am relatively certain it has been there since a few days after we resubscribed in November 2011, and I finally got round to watching it in August 2013. It had always intrigued me, but I was a little put off by its place in my queue, which I sort by star rating; it is consistently in the bottom ten percent. I have my hypotheses, now that I have watched it, on why this is. Most of them I am not going to touch on, though if you read between the lines I'm pretty sure they'll be clear enough. But this one, since it's part of the thesis for the entire review, I have to put out there--this is one of those art-school-style slow films. There is not a great deal of action here, though there is much under the surface that warrants the viewer's attention, and (as befits a film that centers around Mother Church as much as this one does) a great deal of symbolism here that will require the viewer to think a bunch, and possibly to be familiar with customs that are not quite American. (There is a wonderful, funny-yet-depressing scene ten minutes before the end of the movie whose significance I would have missed entirely had I not watched Mahomet-Saleh Haroun's A Screaming Man the week before, which has a variation on the same shot, but in a much less symbolic fashion, as a part of its closing sequence.) From this, you might actually be able to skip the rest of this review; if you are a fan of slow film of the Ozu/Tarr/etc. variety, I would hazard a guess that you will find a great deal here to enjoy. On the other hand, if you prefer movies that spell things out a little more, you might do better to avoid this one. I hope you are of the former stripe, because if you glom onto what Rohrwacher, turning in her first feature (she previously directed a documentary I have not yet tracked down--but after seeing this, it's on my priority list), is doing here, there are many reasons to devote your time to Corpo Celeste. The movie centers on Marta (Yle Vianello in her first screen appearance--I fervently hope it is not her last as well), a thirteen-year-old Italian girl raised in Switzerland, but whose mother has moved back to the Old Country (why is never specified). Her mother (Pasqualina Scuncia, also making her first screen appearance) and older sister (The New Monsters Today's Paola Lavini) are not religious folks, but Marta finds herself drawn to the Catholic church, and begins catechism classes under the tutelage of Rita (We Can Do That's Anita Ciprioli), the long-suffering assistant to local priest Don Mario (Gomorrah's Salvatore Cantalupo). While she initially throws herself into her religious studies with a great deal of fervor, the more she discovers about the inner workings of the church, the more she questions what she had initially seen as her faith--until an act of shocking violence makes her question whether she wants to commit herself. A movie in which not much happens save one central scene of violence that is almost entirely out of place? It's obvious Alice Rohrwacher is a big fan of Béla Tarr's, and if you've followed my reviews at all, you know that's as good as me saying "this is the best thing ever." It is a film that is chock full of symbolism, it is (to put it mildly) leisurely-paced, and judging by the IMDB boards, a lot of people looked at the movie's final scene and said "what exactly is it that I am watching here?". I can't exactly call this a spoiler: Marta, having wandered down to the beach, meets a small cadre of local children. One of them, eyes wide with wonder, puts something into her hand. This part I did have to look up afterwards: it is a disembodied lizard's tail. (I had thought it a worm of some sort.) She looks down at it, still thrashing around in the throes of autotomy, and considers it in the context of everything that has happened to her over the course of the film. Is that a spoiler? No--the spoiler lies in how you interpret the scene. But then, everyone has an interpretation. Better, perhaps, to say that the spoiler is in whether your interpretation of the scene is optimistic or pessimistic. In any case, I lost my train of thought there, as so often happens when I am confronted with this sort of beauty. Suffice to say that this is not a movie for everyone. But if slow film is your bag--if you like Ozu and Tarr and Jon Jost and folks like that--you're going to dig this. There is much, much, much going on below the surface for you to mull over, pull apart, ponder, and talk about with your pals after you've watched it, and as far as I'm concerned, that's what the best movies do: make the viewer think. ****
| ASIN | B005UNI2XY |
| Actors | Pasqualina Scuncia, Salvatore Cantaloupo, Yle Vianello |
| Best Sellers Rank | #194,299 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #27,963 in Drama DVDs |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars (36) |
| Director | Alice Rohrwacher |
| Item model number | 616892182467 |
| MPAA rating | NR (Not Rated) |
| Media Format | Color, Dolby, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Product Dimensions | 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces |
| Release date | November 6, 2012 |
| Run time | 1 hour and 40 minutes |
| Studio | Film Movement |
| Subtitles: | English |
E**T
Sad and soul crushing
Having grown up in the Irish catholic tradition, the most mean spirited vindictive variation of the ancient faith I always believed the Italians had a much lighter take on the whole thing. Boy was I wrong. This is a wrenchingly sad story of a young girl transplanted from the relatively secular environment of Switzerland to Reggio Calabria a city on the "toe" of the boot shape that is Italy as her mothers health deteriorates. I had always thought that this was a beautiful region but the Calabria shown here is stark gritty, industrial and bleak. The protagonist youthful "Marta" is dealing with puberty and all of its confusions, an older sister who is both protective and emotionally abusive, and the local catholic church where she is being prepared for her confirmation. The parish is run by a disengaged priest who longs for a higher station in the church, a lonely spinster catechism teacher and a stoic menacing sacristan. Marta tries earnestly to believe even as she is ridiculed and the hypocrisy of the church is revealed to her. In the end hers is a painful voyage of discovery, betrayal and crushed faith that will leave one both sad and yearning for her survival and ultimate redemption.
R**E
The Cup of Salvation.
Corpo Celeste (Alice Rohrwacher, 2011) I don't even remember what originally prompted me to add Corpo Celeste to my Netflix queue. I am relatively certain it has been there since a few days after we resubscribed in November 2011, and I finally got round to watching it in August 2013. It had always intrigued me, but I was a little put off by its place in my queue, which I sort by star rating; it is consistently in the bottom ten percent. I have my hypotheses, now that I have watched it, on why this is. Most of them I am not going to touch on, though if you read between the lines I'm pretty sure they'll be clear enough. But this one, since it's part of the thesis for the entire review, I have to put out there--this is one of those art-school-style slow films. There is not a great deal of action here, though there is much under the surface that warrants the viewer's attention, and (as befits a film that centers around Mother Church as much as this one does) a great deal of symbolism here that will require the viewer to think a bunch, and possibly to be familiar with customs that are not quite American. (There is a wonderful, funny-yet-depressing scene ten minutes before the end of the movie whose significance I would have missed entirely had I not watched Mahomet-Saleh Haroun's A Screaming Man the week before, which has a variation on the same shot, but in a much less symbolic fashion, as a part of its closing sequence.) From this, you might actually be able to skip the rest of this review; if you are a fan of slow film of the Ozu/Tarr/etc. variety, I would hazard a guess that you will find a great deal here to enjoy. On the other hand, if you prefer movies that spell things out a little more, you might do better to avoid this one. I hope you are of the former stripe, because if you glom onto what Rohrwacher, turning in her first feature (she previously directed a documentary I have not yet tracked down--but after seeing this, it's on my priority list), is doing here, there are many reasons to devote your time to Corpo Celeste. The movie centers on Marta (Yle Vianello in her first screen appearance--I fervently hope it is not her last as well), a thirteen-year-old Italian girl raised in Switzerland, but whose mother has moved back to the Old Country (why is never specified). Her mother (Pasqualina Scuncia, also making her first screen appearance) and older sister (The New Monsters Today's Paola Lavini) are not religious folks, but Marta finds herself drawn to the Catholic church, and begins catechism classes under the tutelage of Rita (We Can Do That's Anita Ciprioli), the long-suffering assistant to local priest Don Mario (Gomorrah's Salvatore Cantalupo). While she initially throws herself into her religious studies with a great deal of fervor, the more she discovers about the inner workings of the church, the more she questions what she had initially seen as her faith--until an act of shocking violence makes her question whether she wants to commit herself. A movie in which not much happens save one central scene of violence that is almost entirely out of place? It's obvious Alice Rohrwacher is a big fan of Béla Tarr's, and if you've followed my reviews at all, you know that's as good as me saying "this is the best thing ever." It is a film that is chock full of symbolism, it is (to put it mildly) leisurely-paced, and judging by the IMDB boards, a lot of people looked at the movie's final scene and said "what exactly is it that I am watching here?". I can't exactly call this a spoiler: Marta, having wandered down to the beach, meets a small cadre of local children. One of them, eyes wide with wonder, puts something into her hand. This part I did have to look up afterwards: it is a disembodied lizard's tail. (I had thought it a worm of some sort.) She looks down at it, still thrashing around in the throes of autotomy, and considers it in the context of everything that has happened to her over the course of the film. Is that a spoiler? No--the spoiler lies in how you interpret the scene. But then, everyone has an interpretation. Better, perhaps, to say that the spoiler is in whether your interpretation of the scene is optimistic or pessimistic. In any case, I lost my train of thought there, as so often happens when I am confronted with this sort of beauty. Suffice to say that this is not a movie for everyone. But if slow film is your bag--if you like Ozu and Tarr and Jon Jost and folks like that--you're going to dig this. There is much, much, much going on below the surface for you to mull over, pull apart, ponder, and talk about with your pals after you've watched it, and as far as I'm concerned, that's what the best movies do: make the viewer think. ****
A**R
Five Stars
GREAT
J**4
An Amazing Debut
Alice Rohrwacher's film doesn't seem like a debut feature for her, more like an experienced director's work that's seen and done it all already. Portraying Catholicism is not an easy task, but she was not afraid to put some very different opinions about it in this film. It's refreshing really, how it looks at religion from more than one angle. It's not done often enough! When watching Yle Vianello, who plays Marta, the central girl to the film, you are surprised by how fearless she is. Emotionally, this film is deep on many levels, dealing with family, God, the struggles of adolescence, and more. Already a fan of Italian cinema, this film didn't disappoint at all!
R**H
A review of "Corpo Celeste"
I hoped this DVD would at least be OK but found its mood too dark. But then, many Film Movement releases are dark and morbid. The films mood is symbolized by scenes of freeways carrying people through broken landscapes to vague ends. Near the end, a "miracle" is shown to her of a dying fish trying to find water. This was not a pleasant story to watch, as was certainly the producers intention.
A**R
good
L**U
Storia veramente originale e raccontata in un modo molto professionista. Tutto è diverso: la sceneggiatura, il montaggio, le interpretazioni... Veramente, una grande e bella sorpresa in un panorama cinematografico italiano dove non c'è molta diversità negli ultimi anni. La bimbetta protagonista è bravissima. La forza che prende il film man mano arriva alla fine è stata veramente riuscita. Una piccola gioia assolutamente da vedere.
K**.
I found this movie on a streaming service and then it got removed because a copyright I was thrilled to find a copy of it on Amazon it is an excellent coming-of-age film you get wrapped up in the storyline and you don't care that it has subtitles. I can't give away too much of the plot but this company chooses award winners so the video quality is excellent in high definition
S**O
E' arrivato in tempi brevissimi ed in perfette condizioni. Lo consiglio. Prezzo molto competitivo rispetto ad altri siti o negozi.
A**O
Ok
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