Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #13. Michelangelo Frammartino’s The Four Times

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#13. The Four Times

Director: Michelangelo Frammartino  
Distributor: Rights Available.

BuzzHypnotic and mediative, I’m guessing I wasn’t the only one who was charmed & seduced by this Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight gem. With passages in Telluride, NYFF and Toronto in the middle with a year’s worth of film festival traveling, whatever remaining territories (including the U.S.) that aren’t sold, will be sold. Of the 30 listed items mentioned in the list, this is tops.

The Gist: Inspired by Pythagoras’s belief in four-fold transmigration – by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral, until completely purified – The Four Times is a genre-defying work of cinematic transcendence that follows the journey of an elderly shepherd through the afterlife.

TIFF ScheduleFriday September 10 7:45:00 PM AMC 5
Saturday September 11 12:15:00 PM AMC 4
Sunday September 12 2:15:00 PM AMC 4

 

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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