简介:Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps. The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial. -Steve Grayson my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty. - Jonathan Rosenbaum
黛茜·贝茨,乔尔·斯马尔本,克雷利·伯杰,乔纳森·杰克逊,卢卡斯·布莱克,坎达丝·卡梅隆·玻儿,Paul Luke Bonenfant,迪塞尔·拉托拉卡,JJ Pantano,坦兹·麦考尔,Angus K. Caldwell,Hillary Scott,兰斯·E·尼克尔斯,罗斯琳·詹托,特瑞·欧奎恩,唐·莫斯特,蕾切尔·亨德里克斯,博·威里克,丽蓓嘉·圣·詹姆斯,Dean Shortland