VERMIGLIO
The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Maura Delpero’s singular portrait of a sprawling family during the waning days of WWII.
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SYNOPSIS
The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for VERMIGLIO, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. This singular portrait of a sprawling family, set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, follows a series of dramatic, consequential events after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico), who hides out in town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with the family’s eldest daughter, Lucia (Martina Scrinzi).
VERMIGLIO shows the lives of a provincial family in a remote village suspended in time by the customs of a fading era. Conjuring stories from her own family’s past, Delpero creates a deeply personal and human tale that recalls the great neorealist movement in Italian cinema, but through Lucia’s perspective VERMIGLIO feels distinct and novel. Italy’s Official Selection for the 2025 Academy Awards.
Director
Maura Delpero
WITH
Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi
Run Time
1 hour, 59 minutes
Released
December 25, 2024
Distributed by
Sideshow / Janus Films
HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE
Assisted Listening
Subtitled / Open Captions
Country
Italy, France, Belgium
SUBTITLES
Italian w/ English subtitles
NOT RATED
Many of the films shown at The Ross are not rated due to the prohibitive cost of acquiring a rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Consequently, as many of these films contain graphic content, viewer discretion is advised.
REVIEWS
“A rich, enveloping film that asks viewers to approach it as if tiptoeing through the snow.”
“[Vermiglio] is wonderfully acted with unaffected naturalism by its cast of professionals and newcomers and plays an extravagant, almost shameless pizzicato on the audience’s heartstrings.”
“The remarkable, raw-boned and ravishing Vermiglio takes place in the past but operates like a future family secret playing out in the present tense, a perspective that is not quite Godlike, but comes from that which we might as well call God.”