The lush, breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace in natural light from cold winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Maura Delpero’s visionary film “Vermiglio,” which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival
This unique portrait of an extended family, shot in the small mountain village of Vermiglio during the final days of World War II, follows a series of dramatic and consequential events following the arrival of a quiet Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico) who is hiding in the town after deserting from the army
While there, the soldier develops an affair with the family’s eldest daughter, Lucia (Martina Scrinzi)
“Vermiglio” depicts the life of a provincial family in a remote village, frozen in time by the customs of a decadent era
Drawing on stories from his family’s past, Delpero creates a deeply personal and human story that recalls the great neorealist movement of Italian cinema, but from Lucia’s perspective, “Vermiglio” seems different and new
28/32