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‘Vermiglio’ Review: Maura Delpero’s Personal Tale Of Wartime Infidelity In The Italian Alps – Venice Film Festival

‘Vermiglio’ review: Maura Delpero’s personal tale of wartime infidelity in the Italian Alps – Venice Film Festival

The setting for Maura Delpero ’s second feature is a sleepy wartime village in the Italian Alps, but the languid nature of the film is so soporific it borders on anesthetizing; indeed when the credits finally roll, it might be worth checking yourself for scars and other signs of organ harvesting. Technically, it is a marvel of period filmmaking, an immersive view of la vida rustica so bursting with authenticity that it may inspire more enthusiastic viewers to put on a folk hat and get a job in a heritage museum working the spinning jenny. The eldest, Lucia (Martina Scrinzi) — who could be 16 going on 70, given the prematurely ageing qualities of rural life — finds her head being turned when her soldier brother Attilio (Santiago Fondevila Sancet) returns from the war with his new friend Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico) in tow.

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