VENICE 2022 Giornate degli Autori
Salvatore Mereu • Director of Bentu
"This farmer, whose way of life is so distant from our own, reminds us that we don't have the right relationship with nature"
by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso
VENICE 2022: The director follows the day-to-day life of an elderly farmer as he waits for the wind to blow in a moral parable about man defying nature
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Salvatore Mereu, he director of Sonetàula [+see also:
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interview: Salvatore Mereu
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film profile] in the 19th Giornate degli Autori at the 79th Venice Film Festival. The film, which follows the day-to-day life of an elderly farmer as he waits for the wind to blow, is a moral parable about man defying nature, set in 1950s Sardinia.
