A selection last fall at the Toronto International Film Festival and Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival, the Kino Lorber film release La Sapienza comes to New York’s Lincoln Plaza Cinema on March 20th, before opening in select cities.As Monteverdi’s sacred Vespers choral music sets the mood to open La Sapienza, a panning camera shot settles on St. Peter’s Basilica that dominates the Rome skyline. The lens moves on to other, as-yet-unidentifiable locations to linger on tight close-ups of elegantly proportioned Baroque windows, plaster ceilings, limestone columns, and centuries-old caryatids. From the silly National Lampoon’s Vacation to mannered films like A Room With a View and Lost in Translation, road trips and travel themes have long been a great movie tradition. Even in a comedy-crime caper like In Bruges the gorgeous setting is part of the cast. In recent memory, few works take us on quite the aesthetic journey that filmmaker Eugène Green’s La Sapienza does. - Source
La Sapienza: A Cinematic Homage To Baroque Master Borromini
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