Stendalì: Suonano ancora
Short / Documentary
Italy,
1960, 13 min
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Stendalì is a reflection on the traditions of the South. In Salento, women dressed in black mourn a death, as Mangini’s frequent dialectical montage – here furiously speeded up – shifts the scenery towards the unfamiliar, amplified by the avant-garde score of Egisto Macchi. Seeing these women’s unveiled faces once again brings Pasolini to mind, when he claimed that fascism only left scratches on the Italian soul, but consumerism destroyed it. (Viennale)
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Lilla Brignone (narrator)
Italy
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