- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Version:
- Languages:
- Length:
- 91 minutes: Uncut
- Review Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2002
- Countries:
- Predominant Genre:
- Drama
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Premiss:
- On an impoverished island, a
free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics. - Themes:
- Christianity |
Coming-of-age | Compassion | Courage | Curative | Destiny | Emotional repression | Empathy | Family | Grieving | Humanity | Identity | Individualism | Love | Loyalty | Nature | Personal | Personal change | Political | Redemption |Self-Esteem | Society | White culture - Similar to:
Crazy or just different?
Tribal simplicity recorded in the life of an isolated fishing community - every nook and cranny roasted by the sun, as
This small, sensual movie proffers a great deal of physical movement and light. Whimsical in being almost plotless; verging on the honesty of a dream. Sexuality is everywhere as an instinctive naturalness holds this society together.
Lust for life boils over in a young mother, Grazia (an excellent Valeria GOLINO,
After she literally sets the wild dogs loose, they want to send her away: Maybe she is
They want her gone, so she leaves: Her older son finds a cave for her to hide in. Her husband believes she drowned and places a religious statuette at the bottom of the sea. The film then ends in a minor miracle - an image not to be forgotten.
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