LE QUATTRO VOLTE, a wondrous Italian docu-essay, opens in LA! April 15, 2011

LE QUATTRO VOLTE
Wondrous Italian Docu-Essay Traces the Cycle of Life

Engagements begin April 15, 2011
Landmark’s Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles 310-281-8223
Showtimes (valid 4/15-21): Fri- Sun at 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 & 9:45; Mon- Thu at 5:15, 7:30 & 9:45
Tickets are $10.50 for general admission and $8.00 for seniors, students, and children

Showtimes and tickets are available at: http://www.landmarktheatres.com/tickets and theatre box office.
http://www.kinolorber.com/film.php?id=1167

Lorber Films presents LE QUATTRO VOLTE, showing for a one-week exclusive engagement at Landmark’s Nuart Theatre from Friday, April 15 through Thursday, April 21, 2011.

Inspired by Pythagoras’s belief in four-fold transmigration — by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral — Michelangelo Frammartino’s (Il Dono aka The Gift), wondrous docu-essay traces the cycle of life through the daily rituals of life in the southern Italian region of Calabria.

LE QUATTRO VOLTE is a poetic vision of the revolving cycles of life and nature and the unbroken traditions of a timeless place, the story of one soul that moves through four successive lives.

An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day. A new goat kid is born. We follow its first few tentative steps, its first games, until it gains strength and goes to pasture. Nearby, a majestic fir tree stirs in the mountain breeze and slowly changes through the seasons. The tree now lies on the ground. It has been reduced to its own skeleton, and is transformed into wood coal through the ancestral work of the local coal makers. Our sight gets lost in the ashes’ smoke.

Winner, Europa Cinema Label (Best European Film) - Cannes International Film Festival (Director’s Fortnight)
New York Film Festival - Official Selection
Toronto International Film Festival - Official Selection
Telluride Film Festival - Official Selection

"Its view of nature is among the most profound, expansive and unsettling I have ever encountered on film...Mr. Frammartino's eye for both comedy and mystery produces compositions that are so strange and memorable that they seem to reinvent the very act of perception." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times

The film’s running time is 88 minutes; it is not rated.

Official Website: http://www.kinolorber.com/film.php?id=1167