Padre Padrone
by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
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Actor: Fabrizio Forte, Marcella Michelangeli, Marino Cenna, Omero Antonutti, Saverio MarconiDirector: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Brand: Genius
Cinematographer: Mario Masini
Writer: Paolo Taviani
Writer: Vittorio Taviani
Editor: Roberto Perpignani
Producer: Giuliani G. De Negri
Writer: Gavino Ledda
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-06-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
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- This powerful true tale of one boy's struggle out of isolation and silence is perfectly captured on film. 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. System Requirements: Features: , Interact
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DVD Review: The Unsweetened Life of a Shepherd
Summary: 5 Stars
A shepherd pulls his young son out of the first grade to start him on his career as a shepherd. He teaches him necessary survival skills for the job, but beats him for attempting to abandon his duties. The boy reaches his twenty-first year. The father sells almost everything and buys an olive grove which a frost destroys. The young shepherd and his peers plan to immigrate to Germany, but he is sent back while the others leave because his father didn't sign the correct forms and because he is illiterate. The young man gets a grammar school equivalency diploma and joins the army. He makes a friend who helps him to refine his intellect. He learns quickly and decides he wants to continue to University for linguistics. Returning home he is forced to work for his father during the day and study by night. He fails an exam and refuses to work anymore. The father and son have a fight, and the son has to leave. He gets his doctorate and writes an award-winning autobiography. He returns to his hometown to live.
The theme of this film is the wisdom that allows an uneducated, young shepherd to gain an education, fame, and an independent, meaningful existence in the context of patriarchal oppression.
This theme is enhanced by the use of the elements of film style. Editing shows us a sequence in which the face of a patron saint that the boys are carrying in procession turn into the face of Gavino's father. This shows the audience that, metaphorically, Gavino carries the weight of his father on his shoulders. We feel the heavy patriarchal oppression to which he and his peers are subjected. Action shows us Gavino turning the radio volume up when his father asks him to turn it off, and then humming Mozart's clarinet concerto when his father silences the radio by immersing it in water. The audience recognizes that Gavino is finally defying his patronizing father. This action also shows us the dimension of his mind, as it reveals that he is capable of understanding Mozart and of keeping beauty alive in his life. We fear retribution and are at the same time awed by and proud of Gavino's courage. Sound gives us many stream-of-consciousness sequences in which we hear the thoughts of Gavino and other characters. In one such sequence, we hear Gavino connecting the vocabulary he is memorizing to words that he already knows and to feelings he has known but could not name before. "...Languid, lurid, father, fatherly, patriarch, patronize," he says to himself. This allows the audience into Gavino's consciousness, so that we experience growth; we recognize that as he learns new vocabulary, he is also acquiring self-worth.
This film story is culturally valuable because it shows that one man can acquire the wisdom to break the traditional cycle that many--perhaps centuries of--people had not. It is a story, therefore, that is greatly inspirational to anyone who has ever faced opposition to maturation, modernization or creativity. The use of detailed sounds and slow, simple camera movements force the audience's senses to follow Gavino's. When he is alone in the dark, we are alone in the dark. We see a close-up of a snake's poised, open jaw and fear it, just as he does. We hear the wind through the trees as Gavino's father trains him to recognize his location by it. Likewise, the many stream of consciousness scenes allow the audience into Gavino's mind. We also hear fragments of the thoughts of the schoolchildren, Gavino's father, the selfish townspeople at a funeral, and even the sheep Gavino milks. The use of such devices makes the audience take part not only in the physical pain and alienation that was part of a young shepherd's life, but also in the mental neglect and torture that followed. We feel abandoned, fed up, and triumphant as Gavino does. The most important aspect of this film, however, lies in the fact that while Gavino creates his own boundaries and frees himself from patriarchal slavery, he is still self-aware and doesn't turn his story into a fairy tale. He is not living in a mansion with a perfect wife and children at the film's end. Rather, the real Gavino is presented to the audience on the same lonely streets on which he began, looking content but imperfect. This story allows for the fact that there are still sad aspects to his life, and lingering effects to what he experienced. Likewise, none of his experience was sweetened: his life is presented as was, in a beautiful and moving way.
Description of Padre Padrone
A true tale of one boys struggle out of isolation and silence. 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. Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/19/2007 Starring: Omero Antonutti Marcella Michelangeli Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Paolo And Vittorio TavianiBestsellers in DVD
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