The story is one of an architect that has lost his inspiration and goes looking for those motivations that pushed him as a youngster to take up the profession. Inspiring him was the baroque movement and all of its artifices: the Guarini in Turin and the Borromini in Rome. The film’s central story ends up being the love story that develops between architecture, artistic inspiration and feelings.
Direction
Green's deadpan formalism—characters stare past each other like Baroque statues.
Cinematography
Rome and Turin shot as luminous architectural love letters.
Writing
Dialogue so stiff it becomes its own hypnotic language.
Director
Eugène Green
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Green shot inside actual Borromini churches including Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, which lent the film its title.
The film revives 'la mise en scène' of post-war French auteurs like Bresson—every gesture stripped to ritual.
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