#854: OLMI, Ermanno: The Tree Of Wooden Clogs (1978)
OLMI, Ermanno (Italy)
The Tree Of Wooden Clogs [1978]
Spine #854
Blu-ray
187 minutes
The Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Deborah Young.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
By filmmaker Mike Leigh.
Ermanno Olmi: The Roots of the Tree
An hour-long 1981 episode of The South Bank Show, featuring an interview with Olmi on the film and a visit to the farm where it was shot.
Program
Featuring cast and crew discussing the film at the Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy, in 2016.
Interviews
With Olmi from 1978 and 2008.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
The Tree Of Wooden Clogs [1978]
Spine #854
Blu-ray
A sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian peasant life, Ermanno Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs focuses on four families working for one landowner on an estate in the province of Bergamo. Filming on an abandoned farm, Olmi adapted neorealist techniques to tell his story, enlisting local people to live as their ancestors had and speak in their native dialect on locations with which they were intimately familiar. Through the cycle of seasons, of backbreaking labor, love and marriage, birth and death, faith and superstition, Olmi lovingly evokes an existence very close to nature, celebrating its beauty, humor, and simplicity but also acknowledging the feudal cruelty that governs it. The Tree of Wooden Clogs is intimate in scale but epic in scope — a towering, heart-stirring work of humanist filmmaking.
187 minutes
Color
Monaural
in Bergamasque
1:37:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2017
Monaural
in Bergamasque
1:37:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2017
Director/Writer
Ermanno Olmi was 47 when he wrote and directed The Tree of Wooden Clogs.
Other Olmi films in the Collection:
#194: Il Posto (1961)
#195: I Fidanzati (1962)
The Film
Other Olmi films in the Collection:
#194: Il Posto (1961)
#195: I Fidanzati (1962)
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Deborah Young.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
By filmmaker Mike Leigh.
Ermanno Olmi: The Roots of the Tree
An hour-long 1981 episode of The South Bank Show, featuring an interview with Olmi on the film and a visit to the farm where it was shot.
Program
Featuring cast and crew discussing the film at the Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy, in 2016.
Interviews
With Olmi from 1978 and 2008.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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