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title: "Padre Padrone [DVD]"
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# Padre Padrone [DVD]

**Brand:** omero antonuttisaverio marconipaolo tavianivittorio taviani
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Product Description          This powerful true tale of one boy's struggle out of isolation and silence is perfectly captured on film by the renowed Taviani brothers             .com          Paolo and Vittorio Taviani first garnered critical attention with this adaptation of Gavino Ledda's autobiography, winning both the Golden Palm and the Critics Prize at Cannes in 1977. Gavino's father pulls him out of elementary school at the age of 6 to force him into the life of a Sardinian shepherd, often severely beating him. Yet Gavino's illiteracy spurs him on to eventually earn a university degree on Sardinian dialects. And it's his journey from the cruel, solitary, animal world of shepherding under the yoke of his tyrant Padre, to that of a writer and a linguist that forms the body of this tale. But more, it's a showcase for the talents of the Taviani brothers, whose style keeps us distant from their subject, like a child watching an ant colony. There's a moment in Padre Padrone ("Father Master" for those who want to be clued in to the film's political rumblings from the get-go) that typifies the best and worst it has to offer. Gavino, having had a violent argument with his father, decides to leave home to keep the peace, but must retrieve a valise that's under the bed his father is currently sitting on. This brings the top of his head conveniently close to Padre, whose hand absently moves to pat him on the noggin, but instead raises in a fascistic fist of rage. The ambivalence of the gesture is pointed, and well taken. But to make the point, the Tavianis have abstracted their characters past all recognition. There is no time in the film when a scene is not a carefully controlled abstraction. Now the characters are all gestures and tableaux, swallowed by pastoral landscapes, markers in its historical sweep rather than flesh-and-blood people. While this might appeal to an audience's sense of intellectual cool, it also deprives them of the richer joys of being allowed under a character's skin. --Jim Gay

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## Customer Reviews

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    Harsh but exhilirating
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2005*

There's no shortage of grit and unpleasantness in Padre Padrone, the kind of film you really couldn't make today - violent child beatings, animals beaten, killed or worse on screen (I really wasn't expecting the montage of donkey and chicken molesting) and a distinct lack of any sentimentality. But the Taviani Brothers' film is still one of the best I've seen this year, turning what could easily have been an exercise in miserablism into a remarkable and occasionally anarchic but always imaginative piece of pure filmmaking. From its great opening, where the real Gavino hands the actor playing his father the stick he will use to beat him as a child, there's an intelligent audacity that manifests itself in a world where animals and even music have voices if you know how to listen: the battle of wills between Gavino and a goat played out in voice over, or the voice overs of the school children whose laughter at Gavino's fate turns to horror as they realize they are next are just two great examples. Some shots manage to be strangely beautiful in spite of their context or even, odd as it sounds, their visual quality - the tracking shot of leaving the village, the long take of the father hurrying home to kill his son. The film also has a superlative use of sound, creating a sense of place out of the sounds as much of the sights in Gavino's first night in the pasture.The two hours fly by, but burn themelves into your memory. It's just a shame that Fox Lorber's DVD is such poor quality.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Disturbing
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 16, 2021*

I read the other reviews and found more out of this film than I did. One of the most disturbing aspects of this movie was the mother, and her evil laugh. That's not the way a mother acts. Its a wonder Gavino turned out half way decent at all. I would love to know if he ever got  , had kids of his own, had any normalcy in his relationships. And I would love to know if his dad hit him in the head at the end of the movie. The camera stops, so we don't know.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Emotional movie
  

*by C***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 21, 2022*

A piece of life to discover

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