La sublime fatica
Year1966 Duration11 min. DirectorLuciano Emmer
La sublime fatica is based on the commission to film the sculptures by Michelangelo in the year of the fourth centenary of his death, for a short film with Charlton Heston that would originally accompany the premiere of El tormento y el éxtasis (The Agony and the Ecstasy). At the last moment, Fox broke the contract, but Emmer turned the commission towards a critical and ironic look at the mass tourism that was starting to invade Italy in the 1960s, highlighted by chirping music and the obsessive gaze of the wide-angle camera, in dialogue with the verses written by the sculptor in the 16th century.
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