Spettacolo

Name: Spettacolo
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 6, 2017
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Alpo Mangiavacchi, Andrea Cresti, Arturo Vignai, Chiara Del Ciondolo, Daniele Mangiavacchi

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: September 6, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Alpo Mangiavacchi, Andrea Cresti, Arturo Vignai, Chiara Del Ciondolo, Daniele Mangiavacchi, Denise Rappuoli, Gianna Fiore, Gianpiero Giglioni, Nagis Grappi

Summary: Once upon a time, villagers in a tiny hill town in Tuscany came up with a remarkable way to confront their issues: they turned their lives into a play. Every summer, their piazza became their stage and residents of all ages played a part – the role of themselves. Monticchiello’s annual tradition has attracted worldwide attention and keptOnce upon a time, villagers in a tiny hill town in Tuscany came up with a remarkable way to confront their issues: they turned their lives into a play. Every summer, their piazza became their stage and residents of all ages played a part – the role of themselves. Monticchiello’s annual tradition has attracted worldwide attention and kept the town together for 50 years, but with an aging population and a future generation more interested in Facebook than farming, the town’s 50th–anniversary performance just might be its last. Spettacolo tells the story of Teatro Povero di Monticchiello, interweaving episodes from its past with its modern-day process as the villagers turn a series of devastating blows into a new play about the end of their world. [Grasshopper Film]… Expand

Director: Chris Shellen and Jeff Malmberg

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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Sheri Linden

Sep 6, 2017

The elegiac Spettacolo is in some ways a familiar story, revolving around the universal tug of war between time and tradition. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Sep 6, 2017

Is this art or is this prophecy? Is there even a difference? Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Sep 28, 2017

Theater lovers and Italophiles alike should savor the documentary Spettacolo. Read full review

Christopher Gray

Sep 2, 2017

Though some of Spettacolo's tension is superficial, the stuff of any let’s-put-on-a-show narrative, its latent anxieties are myriad and profoundly resonant. Read full review

Vikram Murthi

Sep 5, 2017

Although Spettacolo is thoughtful and charming throughout, it’s mildly disappointing that the film doesn’t further engage with the self-reflexivity of the annual event itself. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Sep 6, 2017

Though at its core the film is about a dying way of life, the location and photography here are so beguiling that they semi-perversely encourage just the kind of foreign tourism that factors into that slow death. Read full review

The Film Stage Ryan Swen

Sep 11, 2017

If Spettacolo has a significant flaw, it is in the somewhat pedestrian and placid manner in which it is constructed. There is the feeling that the directors see the play as a vehicle in order to explore the town as a whole, which does allow for some lovely moments of contemplation but makes the film less focused and motivated as a whole. Read full review

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