Tra Ponente e Levante: Life in Riva

The house where Lazzarin ' (as everyone calls him) spends his days becomes the starting point to tell, through heterogeneous archival materials, private but also from institutional archives, the story of an italian village recomposed through the stories of its inhabitants . The characters of this choral novel speak with their own voice. A first person narration give back to the unit a multiple snippets of conversation, captions of old photographs, essays of seamanship, testimonies and popular legends, following Lazzarin' in his long silent days. The composition of the shots is based on the synthesis: the narrative proceeds along articulated images suggesting a complexity of viewpoints. But it's in the transition from memorabilia to artworks that emerges the stylistic side of this project: all the elements of the archives, created in response to specific needs, primarily of memory and documentation, they are considered in an aesthetic perspective and re-used in the composition of narrative original images.
Comments about documentary «Tra Ponente e Levante: Life in Riva» (18)
Tra Ponente e Levante. Avventure di mare, memorie private, archeologia industriale a Riva Trigoso is a movie that lets you reflect about your own actions, life, existence.
Can watch it 10 times and still see new things you missed. Lorenzo Giordano is a genius!
I was extremely excited to see this movie, because I am starting to get into Lorenzo Giordano.
Amazing movie and I can't wait to see what the sequel(s) will provide for us.
Margherita Garrone latest production to be his best to date. It is "a powerfully moving story”.
This was very entertaining, from start to finish, if you like History movies.
5 stars all the way. Great story line, great acting.
It's a great movie and it's worth seeing. Lorenzo Giordano done well in making this movie
Loved this movie! Such a great movie with a surprise ending. I cried during the action film which was surprising.
The movie is brilliantly paced, all feels fresh, new, innovative and unique! Brilliant, Funny and Innovative.
So, what makes this film different? It's smart, focused, and suspenseful.