Carlo Levi relates his own experience as a learned man dropped into a corner of his own country that feels more like an alien land. Instead we see something understandable by anyone that can remember being uprooted from home and having to adjust to unfamiliar surroundings. There’s also no Travelogue Revolution with a chaser of lustful romance, as in Doctor Zhivago. It’s a story about political history, yet there are no violent clashes or calls to adopt a new viewpoint. Christ Stopped at Eboli is a different article altogether. Padre Padrone and Olmi’s The Tree of Wooden Clogs but I can’t say they became favorites. Thoughtful, serious films about the Italian countryside and its past traditions are respected and honored, but often a tough row to hoe. Produced by Nicola Carraro, Franco Cristaldi Written by Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra, Raffaele La Capria story by Rosi & Guerra from a novel by Carlo Levi. Starring: Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari, Irene Papas, rançois Simon, Luigi Infantino, Accursio Di Leo, Francesco Callari, Enzo Vitale, Antonio Allocca, Vincenzo Licata. Cristo si è fermato a Eboli / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date Septem/ 39.95 It’s also uncut, as opposed to the theatrical version that made a splash here in 1980, as simply Eboli.ġ979 / Color / 1:33 flat / 220 150, 120 min. It’s meditative, it’s illuminating, it’s like a book one can’t put down. He expects nothing but receives revelations about his country, his life and one’s place in society. In Mussolini’s most popular years of make-Italy-great-again Fascism, a dissident is given an indefinite ‘time out,’ an exile to a small town in a corner of the country so remote and primitive that not even Christianity could fully change it.
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It’s a perfect movie for a dark time: Carlo Levi’s famed novel about a political undesirable became a major Italian miniseries by the great Francesco Rosi, starring the now-legendary Gian Maria Volontè.
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