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A sei anni Gavino deve abbandonare la scuola, che frequenta da pochi giorni, perchè il padre, Efisio, ha bisogno di lui: deve guardargli le pecore e contribuire così al sostentamento della famiglia. A vent'anni, egli sa tutto della vita sui pascoli e tra i monti, di boschi e di bestiame, ma è un analfabeta e sa parlare solo in dialetto. La vista di due ragazzi forniti di fisarmonica lo scuote dal suo torpore: per procurarsene una, uccide un paio di agnelli. E' il primo atto di ribellione contro il padre, che però continua a dettar legge. Quando, infatti, dopo che una gelata ha distrutto il loro uliveto, Gavino decide di emigrare in Germania, Efisio gli nega il suo consenso. Il giovane parte per il servizio militare: è la sua grande occasione di riscatto e non se la lascia sfuggire. Con l'affettuoso aiuto dei compagni impara a leggere a scrivere, poi rinnova la ferma finché, ottenuta la licenza liceale, torna a casa. Non smette di studiare, però, e poiché Efisio vorrebbe, invece, rimandarlo sui campi, Gavino ha con lui un drammatico scontro addirittura fisico. Lo vince, ma deve comunque andar via di casa: non per obbedienza, ma per se stesso. Si laureerà con una tesi sui dialetti sardi, scriverà libri, diventerà "contrattista" all'Università di Sassari.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very powerful and moving film, wonderfully acted. This particular copy suffers from a problem with subtitles, where the bottom line is not always visible.
26 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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There's no shortage of grit and unpleasantness in Padre Padrone, the kind of film you really couldn't make today - violent child beatings, animals beaten, killed or worse on screen (I really wasn't expecting the montage of donkey and chicken molesting) and a distinct lack of any sentimentality. But the Taviani Brothers' film is still one of the best I've seen, turning what could easily have been an exercise in miserablism into a remarkable and occasionally anarchic but always imaginative piece of pure filmmaking.
From its great opening, where the real Gavino hands the actor playing his father the stick he will use to beat him as a child, there's an intelligent audacity that manifests itself in a world where animals and even music have voices if you know how to listen: the battle of wills between Gavino and a goat played out in voice over, or the voice overs of the school children whose laughter at Gavino's fate turns to horror as they realize they are next are just two great examples. Some shots manage to be strangely beautiful in spite of their context or even, odd as it sounds, their visual quality - the tracking shot of leaving the village, the long take of the father hurrying home to kill his son. The film also has a superlative use of sound, creating a sense of place out of the sounds as much of the sights in Gavino's first night in the pasture.
The two hours fly by, but burn themelves into your memory.
From its great opening, where the real Gavino hands the actor playing his father the stick he will use to beat him as a child, there's an intelligent audacity that manifests itself in a world where animals and even music have voices if you know how to listen: the battle of wills between Gavino and a goat played out in voice over, or the voice overs of the school children whose laughter at Gavino's fate turns to horror as they realize they are next are just two great examples. Some shots manage to be strangely beautiful in spite of their context or even, odd as it sounds, their visual quality - the tracking shot of leaving the village, the long take of the father hurrying home to kill his son. The film also has a superlative use of sound, creating a sense of place out of the sounds as much of the sights in Gavino's first night in the pasture.
The two hours fly by, but burn themelves into your memory.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:DVD
If you like world cinema you will like this. A true story of
a very hard life if the hills. Where boys were taken from school
to work as shepherds to take care of the family live stock and protect them from wolves and thieves. Terrified at being alone they often ran away only to be beaten by their fathers and made to return to tend the flock.
A word of caution!!!The film also includes 3 simulated sex scenes between boys and their animals. A true depiction of real life as shepherd boys going through puberty and into adulthood
a very hard life if the hills. Where boys were taken from school
to work as shepherds to take care of the family live stock and protect them from wolves and thieves. Terrified at being alone they often ran away only to be beaten by their fathers and made to return to tend the flock.
A word of caution!!!The film also includes 3 simulated sex scenes between boys and their animals. A true depiction of real life as shepherd boys going through puberty and into adulthood
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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Seemingly destined to an isolated life tending sheep on a remote Sardinian mountain, Gavino Ledda has other ideas...
Obviously shot on a budget similar to that of my weekly shopping, this is an unlikely film to succeed - yet it does.
Winner of the Grand Prize at the 1997 Cannes film festival, the film deals with a Gavino Ledda's escape from his father's obsessive control, and his escape from his own crippling-ly introverted nature.
Guaranteed to inspire, by both the empathy which one feels for Gavino's struggle for recognition, internally and externally, and the haunting music; and also, it makes one realise that anyone can make a great film with a handycam in your own back garden. And a genius gene, naturally.
Minor criticisms - can be a little boring and slow moving at times, and the leap in Gavino's life we take - from aged 7 to 18 - tries one's imagination a little, but nothing to distract from the overall, satisfying effect the film has.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:DVD
A true story that will leave you in tears. The life of Gavino Ledda who attempts to ecsape the hardship of the Sardinian island and the fate which he was born into.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Monique L.
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This film was inspired by an Italian novel which relates the physical and psychological misery of a family and mainly of the young hero subjected to the violent domination ot the father and forced to give up school to become a shepherd in a very lonely and savage countryside ,with no human contact .The hero will rise and revolt under the oppression .
A very strong , sometimes shocking film which denounces the evils caused by extreme poverty and analphabetism , directed by the talented Taviani brothers ,it won the Palme d 'or at the cannes Festival of 1977 and other prizes
A very strong , sometimes shocking film which denounces the evils caused by extreme poverty and analphabetism , directed by the talented Taviani brothers ,it won the Palme d 'or at the cannes Festival of 1977 and other prizes
By Tim Kelly
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A sad story of selfishness and ignorance and the indomitable spirit. First class acting by all the cast. No sign of women's lib!
By Mario
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A fancy framing device (a bit like the director's cut for Cinema Paradiso in a way) doesn't help. I would have preferred a straighter treatment. There is plenty to admire in between and the parental cruelty is properly unsentimentalised by any sense of forgiveness or Lear-like coming together of father and son. The camera is too fussy, not formal enough for such subject matter. The idea that the boy grows up into a writer (although apparently 'true') is as unconvincing as his 70s haircut. Not a great film, but worth watching. One of those that has lost kudos over the years.
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Reality can be harsh
Based on a real life event one could be left wondering what happened to the 'character' between being a 12-year old boy and next appearing as a young mature adult. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr R Brown
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Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1977, 114')
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1931 and 1929, respectively, both in San Miniato, Tuscany) are noted Italian film... Read more
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1931 and 1929, respectively, both in San Miniato, Tuscany) are noted Italian film... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Dr René Codoni
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mamma mia
This is more depressing than tinned meatballs. It's of its time but failed to live up to the hyperbole of previous reviewers. Not for the faint hearted. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Janarchy
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