Lost and Beautiful

Lost and Beautiful

Pietro Marcello / 2015 / 87 minutes / Italy

Despite death threats from the Mafia and his country’s general apathy, a humble shepherd, Tommaso, takes it upon himself to look after the abandoned Bourbon palace of Carditello, deep in the heart of the ‘Land of Fires.’ One day, Tommaso is seized by a heart attack and dies; but not before making a final wish. He summons a masked character named Pulcinella to rescue a buffalo calf called Sarchiopone from the forsaken palace. Together, man and beast, embark on a long journey through a lost and beautiful Italy, searching for something which may no longer exist. Shot on expired 16mm stock, Lost and Beautiful is a ravishing work that heralds the arrival of an extraordinary new filmmaker.

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  • "Critic's Pick! Mr. Marcello tells a simple, touching tale that seems to contain a whole cosmos of meaning."

    — A.O. Scott, The New York Times

  • "Deeply humanist and romantic. Transcendent"

    — Blake Williams, Cinema Scope

  • "A layered, labyrinthine meditation on Italy, failure and the need to continue moving forward even in the face of the impossible."

    — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

  • "Lost and Beautiful, which some critics have connected to the lineages of both Pasolini’s neorealism and Italian painting, finds cinematic force in its fanciful telling."

    — Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment
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Film at Lincoln Center

New York, NY

12/09/2016

National Gallery of Art

Washington, DC

12/11/2016

Gaslight Twin Cinema

Durango, CO

01/04/2017

Galaxy Theatre

Roswell, NM

01/04/2017

Animas Theatre

Farmington, NM

01/04/2017

Time & Space Limited

Hudson, NY

01/05/2017

Theatre N at Nemours

Wilmington, DE

01/06/2017

PhilaMoca

Philadelphia, PA

01/14/2017

Facets Cinematheque

Chicago, IL

01/20/2017

Mountain Cinema

Hunter, NY

01/21/2017

The Screen

Santa Fe, NM

02/10/2017

DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Notre Dame, IN

03/02/2017

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH

03/08/2017

Civic Theatre

Allentown, PA

04/16/2017

Wexner Center for the Arts

Columbus, OH

04/22/2017