Notturno

'Notturno' Review: 'Fire at Sea' Director Delivers a Cinematic Look at Life in the Middle East

At one lyrical interval in Gianfranco Rosi's "Notturno," a fisherman paddles his small boat down a river lit by the rising sun. Something seems off: the sky stays dark too long, and the distant star burns too brightly. Once the discharge of automatic weapons becomes more prominent in the sound mix, however, we realize that such explosive light is no sun at all - and that for the figures given the spotlight in Rosi's sober and hypnotic portrait of daily life in the war-torn Levant, violence is just another natural, unremarkable part of the landscape. [...]

di Ben Croll, articolo completo (5701 caratteri spazi inclusi) su IndieWire 8 settembre 2020