The Big Empty: Fgaier Crash Lands with Sentimental Drivel
For her directorial debut Weightless (Sulla terra leggeri), film editor Sara Fgaier opens her narrative with a passage from Julian Barnes’ Levels of Life, a 2013 memoir exploring grief, which ends with the line, “when we soar, we can also crash.” Although aviation is also a tangential detail to her narrative, there’s never a moment when anything really soars in what ends up being a sappy exploration of reclaiming memories of passionate love between characters who couldn’t be less interesting if they tried. The passage, much like the film’s title, ironically ends up being ripe for substantial punning, considering its a formidably inconsequential offering as either an emotional or amorous human experience.… Read the rest
