La sublime fatica

Overview

In 1966, Luciano Emmer was commissioned by Twentieth Century Fox to shoot a promotional film for a movie about Michelangelo starring Charlton Heston. When the deal with the Americans fell through, Emmer retrieved the footage and edited it into a documentary about Michelangelo the man, exploring the anxieties and fears revealed in his writings. The sound of the chisel on marble blends with that of a heartbeat. The skewed perspectives on Michelangelo’s sculpture reinforce this idea of the difficulty and effort from which the...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 1, 1967

Original language

Italian

Spoken languages

Italian

Director

Luciano Emmer

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1240969