Fango Rosso (Red Mud)
| Director | Alberto Diana |
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Something has definitively, radically altered the world: the nature of things is no longer the same; a brutal shift has occurred between the fathers’ planet and that of their sons. Looking to the future, the young Sardinian director Alberto Diana examines Sulcis, the region where he grew up, rich in raw materials, the source of hard work and dashed hopes. It’s in this landscape of primitive beauty that our two protagonists evolve – thirty-something, politically active and incorrigible dreamers. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, they confront a kingdom that lays out its realm damaged by humankind but ready to be reborn with all the untamed pride of the wilderness. A journey with no real destination because, as the end of the film emphasises, the true story will be re-written by others as long as we’re open-minded enough to embrace new languages and new forms of society.
Daniela Persico
Programmer and critic
Something has definitively, radically altered the world: the nature of things is no longer the same; a brutal shift has occurred between the fathers’ planet and that of their sons. Looking to the future, the young Sardinian director Alberto Diana examines Sulcis, the region where he grew up, rich in raw materials, the source of hard work and dashed hopes. It’s in this landscape of primitive beauty that our two protagonists evolve – thirty-something, politically active and incorrigible dreamers. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, they confront a kingdom that lays out its realm damaged by humankind but ready to be reborn with all the untamed pride of the wilderness. A journey with no real destination because, as the end of the film emphasises, the true story will be re-written by others as long as we’re open-minded enough to embrace new languages and new forms of society.
Daniela Persico
Programmer and critic
