The lush, breathtaking beauty of the Alps, captured with picturesque grace in natural light from cold winter to salutary spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermillo, Maura Delpero’s visionary film that won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival
Set in the small mountain village of Vermillo in the final days of World War II, this unique portrait of an extended family follows a series of dramatic, consequential events following the arrival of a silent Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico) who has taken refuge in the town after deserting the army
While there, the soldier begins an affair with the family’s eldest daughter, Lucia (Martina Skrinzi)
“Vermillo” depicts the life of a provincial family in a remote village, frozen in time by the customs of a passing era
Drawing on memories of his family’s past, Delpero creates a deeply personal and human story that harks back to the great neorealist movement in Italian cinema, but through the prism of Lucia, “Vermillo” feels special and new
40/13