THE MUTE MAN OF SARDINIA
ITALIAN PERIOD SET MOVIE
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The Mute Man of Sardinia is out today
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Twointernational period set movies for you today, starting with Italian historical drama
THE MUTE MAN OF SARDINIA (Il Muto di Gallura) from
Matteo Fresi, a sophisticated western set in Sardinia in 1850 which explores an historic family feud and was competing over at the
39th Torino Film Festival starring Romulus' star
Andrea Arcangeli. I already
mentioned this one before, but now we have a trailer too as it opens in cinemas today in Italy. In the true life story about the feud between the Vasa and Mamia families, which caused the deaths of more than 70 people in mid-19th century Sardinia, Andrea plays deaf and mute
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The film competed over at Turin Film Festival
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Bastiano Tansu, who – mistreated and marginalized all his life – turned into a feared assassin, driven into a killing frenzy following his brother’s murder. Back in 1884
Enrico Costa wrote a book about this story famous in its region but not so much in the rest of Italy.
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The Child was out in Portugal in February
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After Italy straight over to Portugal where we have period set drama movie
THE CHILD (A criança) which already had its release last month in its homecountry and will move over to France in April.
Joao Arrais plays an adopted young man called Bela who, living in the middle of the 16th century, somewhere near Lisbon, tries to find his place in a family that is free but trapped in a world where each shadow allows defects to shine through. Here, everything leads to disaster.
Marguerite de Hillerin and
Félix Dutilloy Liégeois’s first feature length film, is loosely based on
Heinrich von Kleist’s “The Foundling". As
Cineuropa writes, the story is set in the
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Portuguese countryside in the sixteenth century, a time when the country's conservative religious traditions were dominant, and follows Bela, an orphan
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adopted by a French-Portuguese aristocratic couple. The film mostly focuses on this character’s relationships: with his adopted parents, his friends, his
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lover and with the people who work for him and his family. It depicts the emotionally and psychologically driven cinematic movements in the story of a young boy who seems to be at a time of self-discovery and at the epicentre of the dynamics of his household.
Portuguese countryside in the sixteenth century, a time when the country's conservative religious traditions were dominant, and follows Bela, an orphan
adopted by a French-Portuguese aristocratic couple. The film mostly focuses on this character’s relationships: with his adopted parents, his friends, his 
lover and with the people who work for him and his family. It depicts the emotionally and psychologically driven cinematic movements in the story of a young boy who seems to be at a time of self-discovery and at the epicentre of the dynamics of his household.
