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Paolo e Vittorio Taviani-Padre padrone (1977)

Posted By: FNB47

Date: 6 Dec 2006 20:21:00

Paolo e Vittorio Taviani-Padre padrone (1977)
| 1436.4 MB | Runtime 1:53:21 | color |
Language : Italian
Optional subtitles : English
Audio : mp3 , 48000 Hz , 136 Kb/s , 2-ch
Video : XviD , 1650 Kb/s , 23.97 frm/s , 672x416 (1.66:1)

This powerful true tale of one boy's struggle out of isolation and silence is perfectly captured on film by the renowned Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio. Based on the autobiography by Gavino Ledda, who at the age of six was taken from school into the mountains where his father enslaved him as a shepherd. Gavino eventually broke free discovering the outside world and his own identity within it.
A Grand Prize winner at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival Padre padrone is an incredible story of perseverance and is an exhilarating example of filmmaking (-DVD Cover)

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0076517/plotsummary)

PADRE PADRONE integrates nearly documentary footage seamlessly with a very realistic, often funny, often poignant but never manipulative depiction of what it's like to grow up the first born son of a nearly impoverished Sardinian shepherd. The beatings the boy receives from his tyrannical father are convincingly shown but in such a way that, especially if you've ever been on a set or involved in filmmaking, you can see that the punches and slaps could be easily pulled without the audience knowing it. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0076517/usercomments)

The boy's struggle as he grows into a man to express himself and learn how to read and write, no matter how fierce his father's opposition, is truly inspiring because it is so matter-of-fact, so intense but without a shred of the narrative tricks (such as treacly music cues) that Hollywood would pull to needlessly manipulate cheap audience emotion. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0076517/usercomments)

There's one scene right near the end just before the young man leaves home again for the final time where he has to go to retrieve the family suitcase from under his parents' bed. His angry, powerless dad sits on the edge as his son gropes under him for the suitcase. The two have already come to blows and life-threatening words. Suddenly the young man sinks his head against his father's leg in a brief second of weary contradictory affection. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0076517/usercomments)

His father instinctively moves his hand to, at first, comfort the boy. But before his fingers can even touch his son's hair he is possessed by temper and raises his hand to strike him instead. However, we don't see if he strikes him or not because the Tavianis cut to black then we next see the son leaving town, going on to his destiny as a linguist and bestselling writer. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0076517/usercomments)

This simple scene is one of the most unbearably moving in any film from the last thirty years and indicative of the general excellence of the entire movie. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0076517/usercomments)

Nanni Moretti

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 this year, turning what could easily have been an exercise in miserablism into a remarkable and occasionally anarchic but always imaginative piece of pure film-making. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0076517/usercomments)

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. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0076517/usercomments)

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. It's just a shame that Fox Lorber's DVD is such poor quality. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0076517/usercomments)

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