Vermilionmovie review
It’s 1944. The war is present, even if you can’t see it, yet you can feel its impact, its strength, its atrocity. What brings Vermiglio even closer to this awareness is the arrival of a wounded soldier, who takes shelter right there. It’s an unexpected event, and it upsets, breaking, the daily life of the locals, and of a teacher in particular (played by Thomas Spider) and his family, with one of the two daughters, the eldest, who then, in any case, gradually, will fall in love with him, and even want to marry him. Around everything, there is a microcosm that evolves, the children (who are seen) are a chorus”, says the director, like Greek tragedies”. In their eyes you can perceive how the historical moment they are living has in fact torn away their childhood, those who no longer have parents, or a father.
They are innocent creatures, deprived of a form of innocence, afraid of having to grow up too quickly. The war, then, is an off-screen, an effect that influences what happens in that moment, and that we slowly observe in detail, in women, in men, it is something omnipresent that disrupts, generates chaos, contradictions. The strength of a film like Vermiglio, in addition to the town itself, also lies in the other places (to be discovered) where it was filmed: from Carciato (a hamlet of the municipality of Dimaro – Folgarida), the Church of Comasine in the Municipality of Peio, the Passo del Tonale, all supported by the Trentino Film Commission.
