One of the 100 film italiani da salvare, Padre padrone is quite different than any other movie that I have watched in its gentle brutality. Free of unnecessary exploitation and never quite becoming horror, child abuse and animal cruelty are quietly interspersed with magical scenes of swaying Sardinian oak trees and softly bleating herds of sheep in an idyllic rural landscape.
Young Gavino as portrayed in the film is based upon a real man who remained illiterate until his late teens, yet by his 30s was so well-educated that he wrote Padre padrone as his masterwork: an autobiographical novel.
This is a film that just has to be experienced.
Young Gavino as portrayed in the film is based upon a real man who remained illiterate until his late teens, yet by his 30s was so well-educated that he wrote Padre padrone as his masterwork: an autobiographical novel.
This is a film that just has to be experienced.