Why this movie now? Not only to join the celebrations of WWI 100th anniversary.
At 83, one of the greatest contemporary
Italian directors, Ermanno Olmi, makes up his mind to direct a new “useful” movie, committed and lyrical at the
same time, which is a visual poem against all and any war.
War is absurd and terrifying. This is something Olmi has always been
convinced of, since he and his brother were made the addressees of
painful war tales by their own father, a veteran from WWI, who had
experienced the trenches in first person.