Bandits of Orgosolo 06/22/24

Radiance
Blu-ray

This in-the-wilds thriller about Sardinian shepherds that become outlaws is an almost perfect movie experience, and truer to Italian neorealist theory than the accepted classics. Director Vittorio De Seta filmed on location with almost no crew, using actual shepherds for actors — and comes back with a masterpiece hailed by film festivals as the best debut feature of its year. Everybody liked it, especially the Italian Left — it demonstrates how a backward system of laws forces ordinary men into criminality. On Blu-ray from Radiance.
06/22/24