Pompei: Below the Clouds

Name: Pompei: Below the Clouds
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 6, 2026
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 87

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MUBI | Release Date: March 6, 2026 | Not Rated

Summary: Naples is a city forever marked by the looming presence of Mount Vesuvius. Beneath the quiet threat of eruption, people go about their days: archaeologists unearth the past, children learn as the earth hums, firefighters wait for the next call.

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 115 min

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100

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Sep 6, 2025

It is an intensely disquieting, utterly distinctive film and a superb final panel to his triptych. Read full review

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Jordan Mintzer

Sep 7, 2025

Time stands still and leaps across the epochs in Below the Clouds, which reveals how much our world has been transformed over the millennia, while also remaining the same. Read full review

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RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Mar 6, 2026

Vesuvius might erupt again. The angel of history keeps moving forward. Time destroys, preserves, and then returns (one hopes, at least). Rosi’s film is a meditative and moving document showing that process and possibility. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Sep 7, 2025

To the outsider, Naples is often seen as a city of colour and life, a place of bubbling exuberance. Not so in Giancarlo Rosi’s strikingly melancholic documentary portrait of the southern Italian metropolis. Read full review

Robert Abele

Mar 13, 2026

The notion of Naples as a place in perpetual contact with its ghostly, grand history, whether you’re a citizen living on top of it or a visitor passing through, is what gives Gianfranco Rosi’s patient, eccentric documentary Pompei: Below the Clouds its strangely beautiful atmosphere of reflection and restlessness. Read full review

Steve Pond

Sep 7, 2025

Below the Clouds is a tone poem paying tribute to a region that is suffused with beauty and haunted by loss. It wanders, to be sure, but in a way that’s the point. Read full review

Next Best Picture Cody Dericks

Sep 7, 2025

With Below the Clouds, Rosi performs an act of preemptive time travel by putting images and voices of a specific time, place, and people onto film. It’s a taxing watch that intentionally tries modern viewers’ patience, which is sure to repel most, but the nobility of Rosi’s intentions is inarguable. Read full review

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