La Sapienza

Name: La Sapienza
Genre: Drama
Released: March 20, 2015
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 74

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: March 20, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing his draft – interrupted years earlier – of a book on Borromini. He is accompanied by his wife Alienor who feels her relationship with her husband gradually slipping away along with the passion it used to inspire. Having reached Stresa they happenAt the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing his draft – interrupted years earlier – of a book on Borromini. He is accompanied by his wife Alienor who feels her relationship with her husband gradually slipping away along with the passion it used to inspire. Having reached Stresa they happen to meet Goffredo and Lavinia, a pair of siblings who live there: the former is about to embark in architectural studies, the second is suffering from a nervous disorder. Reviving a maternal instinct that has lain dormant within her for so many years, Alienor feels the need to stay by Lavinia’s side to help her overcome her anxiety and suggests that her husband continue on his travels with Goffredo. This separation will be the start of an inner journey for both Alexandre and Alienor. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Eugène Green

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 101 min

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RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Mar 20, 2015

Easily the most astonishing and important movie to emerge from France in quite some time. While its style deserves to be called stunningly original and rapturously beautiful, the film is boldest in its artistic and philosophical implications, which pointedly go against many dominant trends of the last half-century. Read full review

Scott Foundas

Apr 9, 2015

The unresolvable tension between logic and feeling animates Eugene Green’s La Sapienza, an exquisite rumination on life, love and art that tickles the heart and mind in equal measure. Read full review

Carson Lund

Mar 13, 2015

The mannered direction is at its most effective when it inspires an enhanced sensitivity to the import of every gesture, visual or verbal. Read full review

Zachary Wigon

Mar 19, 2015

A picture that balances heart and mind with nuance. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

Mar 19, 2015

Talky and cerebral, this theatrical drama juxtaposes space and light and explores ghosts from the past and love in the present. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Mar 19, 2015

The movie is an unapologetically rarefied undertaking and at the same time a gracious and inviting film. And it embodies an elegant and melancholy paradox: What looks like tourism is really the pursuit of truth and beauty, and vice versa. Read full review

Noel Murray

Mar 17, 2015

While La Sapienza is unsatisfying as drama, it’s frequently beautiful just as a tour through architecturally significant Italian buildings. And it’s intellectually engaging as an elaboration of their larger meaning. Read full review

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jlevin

Jun 28, 2015

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. La Sapienza is an interesting and special film, but it certainly not for people who want to be easily entertained. It's a story about four characters who by the end of the movie will learn what's important. Their life will change and the change will come slowly as in real life by influences they couldn't have anticipated.
The four, two and two separetely, walk and talk, drink coffee and eat in restaurants, first in Paris and then mainly in Italy and Switzerland in beautiful scenery and captivating architecture.
Sometimes it may feel too slow, but once we understand what is all about, it all make sense… Expand

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xXAlways_RiteXx

Mar 27, 2015

This film is the least immersive experience of my life. It also negatively depicts the Spanish cultures. Although i enjoyed the credits music it was very uplifting to know that the film had ended

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