La sublime fatica (1967)
In 1966, Luciano Emmer was commissioned by Twentieth Century Fox to shoot a promotional film for a movie about Michelangelo starring Charlton Heston. When the deal with the Americans fell through, Emmer retrieved the footage and edited it into a documentary about Michelangelo the man, exploring the anxieties and fears revealed in his writings. The sound of the chisel on marble blends with that of a heartbeat. The skewed perspectives on Michelangelo’s sculpture reinforce this idea of the difficulty and effort from which the...
- Date of release
- 1967-10-01
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 11m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Luciano Emmer
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