Padre Padrone

Padre Padrone
by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani

Padre Padrone
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Actor: Fabrizio Forte, Marcella Michelangeli, Marino Cenna, Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Brand: Genius
Cinematographer: Mario Masini
Writer: Paolo Taviani
Writer: Vittorio Taviani
Editor: Roberto Perpignani
Producer: Giuliani G. De Negri
Writer: Gavino Ledda
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.66:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-06-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber

Movie Reviews of Padre Padrone

Movie Review: Wonderful and different
Summary: 4 Stars

Very intense. Difficult and extraordinary life of sheperd's son in Sardinia. Enduring the loneliness, brutality of the land and an abusive father.

Summary of Padre Padrone

This powerful true tale of one boy's struggle out of isolation and silence is perfectly captured on film by the renowed Taviani brothers
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani first garnered critical attention with this adaptation of Gavino Ledda's autobiography, winning both the Golden Palm and the Critics Prize at Cannes in 1977. Gavino's father pulls him out of elementary school at the age of 6 to force him into the life of a Sardinian shepherd, often severely beating him. Yet Gavino's illiteracy spurs him on to eventually earn a university degree on Sardinian dialects. And it's his journey from the cruel, solitary, animal world of shepherding under the yoke of his tyrant Padre, to that of a writer and a linguist that forms the body of this tale. But more, it's a showcase for the talents of the Taviani brothers, whose style keeps us distant from their subject, like a child watching an ant colony.

There's a moment in Padre Padrone ("Father Master" for those who want to be clued in to the film's political rumblings from the get-go) that typifies the best and worst it has to offer. Gavino, having had a violent argument with his father, decides to leave home to keep the peace, but must retrieve a valise that's under the bed his father is currently sitting on. This brings the top of his head conveniently close to Padre, whose hand absently moves to pat him on the noggin, but instead raises in a fascistic fist of rage. The ambivalence of the gesture is pointed, and well taken. But to make the point, the Tavianis have abstracted their characters past all recognition. There is no time in the film when a scene is not a carefully controlled abstraction. Now the characters are all gestures and tableaux, swallowed by pastoral landscapes, markers in its historical sweep rather than flesh-and-blood people. While this might appeal to an audience's sense of intellectual cool, it also deprives them of the richer joys of being allowed under a character's skin. --Jim Gay

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