Il Dono

2025
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Il Dono
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Kino Lorber | Release Date: July 25, 2025 | Not Rated
Summary: A gentle, beguiling hymn to a semi-deserted Calabrian countryside and those who stayed behind, Il Dono (2003) is a portrait of depopulation in the village of Caulonia (the filmmaker’s ancestral town), which saw a dramatic decrease in inhabitants from roughly 15,000 in the 1950s to just a few hundred people at the time of the film’s making.A gentle, beguiling hymn to a semi-deserted Calabrian countryside and those who stayed behind, Il Dono (2003) is a portrait of depopulation in the village of Caulonia (the filmmaker’s ancestral town), which saw a dramatic decrease in inhabitants from roughly 15,000 in the 1950s to just a few hundred people at the time of the film’s making. In mainly long, static, observational takes and with next to no dialogue, Il Dono pieces together the fragments of a place guided by slow rhythms and which could be described as “old world” with traditions, rituals, charm aplenty, and not a few ruins from the relentless ravages of time. Gorgeously shot on 16mm (then transferred to 35mm, and presented here in a recent digital restoration of superlative color), each frame of Il Dono is like a painting, whether a landscape, portraits of great, weather-worn faces, or still lives reminiscent of Giorgio Morandi’s glass bottles.
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Genre(s): Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 80 min
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