access>CINEMA will release the acclaimed drama Vermiglio in Irish cinemas this February.
Towards the end of WWII in Vermiglio – a high, remote mountain village in the Italian Alps – the arrival of Pietro, a deserted soldier, disrupts the dynamics of a local family, changing them forever.
Pietro, a Sicilian, keeps mostly to himself. However, he establishes a mild flirtation with Lucia – the eldest daughter of Cesare, the much-respected village schoolteacher. Soon, Pietro and Lucia are falling in love. But their pairing sets in motion a series of events that pushes the family towards tragedy and shakes the entire village.
Told in four chapters, each set in a different season, Maura Delpero’s film is powerful and stunning. Beautifully photographed and filled with emotion, it’s a story of women, war and family.
Vermiglio will receive its Irish premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival on Sunday February 23rd. It will also have Galway Film Society screenings at Pálás Cinema on February 23rd and 24th, with Pálás audiences having another chance to catch the film on Thursday 27th.
From February 28th, the film will be screening at the Irish Film Institute and Light House Cinema in Dublin. Cork audiences will have the opportunity to see the film when it plays in Triskel Arts Centre from Sunday March 30th.
The film will also be screening in arts centres and film clubs nationwide, across the access>CINEMA network.
You can find full listings and ticket links below:
Dublin International Film Festival – Sunday February 23rd – tickets
Galway Film Society – Sunday February 23rd and Monday February 24th – tickets
Pálás, Galway – Thursday February 27th – tickets
Irish Film Institute, Dublin – from Friday February 28th – tickets
Light House Cinema, Dublin – from Friday February 28th – tickets
Cinemax, Bantry – Tuesday March 18th – tickets
Sligo Film Society – Thursday March 27th – tickets
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork – from Sunday March 30th – tickets
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray – Monday April 21st – tickets
More screenings to be announced
Reviews:
“★★★★ It is wonderfully acted with unaffected naturalism by its cast of professionals and newcomers and plays an extravagant, almost shameless pizzicato on the audience’s heartstrings.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“The remarkable, raw-boned and ravishing Vermiglio takes place in the past but operates like a future family secret playing out in the present tense, a perspective that is not quite Godlike, but comes from that which we might as well call God.”
– Jessica Kiang, Variety
“Delpero masterfully captures the characters’ experiences and psychology through gesture, performance, and framing rather than dialogue. Krichman’s cinematography, perhaps the best of the year, invokes painting and theater.”
– Lucia Ahrensdorf, The Film Stage
