In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a cursed Renaissance painting
Direction
Directors who trust you to drown in ambiguity
Score
Music that feels like remembering something terrible
Director
Antonio Piazza
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real 1993 abduction of Giuseppe Di Matteo, son of a mafia informant—his father was 'repented', the son was held for 779 days before being murdered.
Directors Grassadonia and Piazza call this 'a fairy tale against fairy tales'—using fantasy structure to expose how Sicilian communities mythologize their own silence around mafia violence.
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this film is wonderful and sad at the same time..
@anabellaingridcolman713 2
Omg so beautiful but so sad!!
@Diotima79 3
This looks so good
@gillowens24 1
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