#13. The Four Times
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Distributor: Rights Available.
Buzz: Hypnotic 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 Schedule: Friday 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