Imitation of Life: Giordana Composes an Old-Fashioned Miracle
Music seems to be the language of the heart in The Life Apart (La vita accanto), a bizarre tale of suffering and expiation relayed with sedate repose by director Marco Tullio Giordana. Having directed a number of films over the past forty-plus years, Giordana won Locarno’s Golden Leopard for his 1980 debut Damn You, I Will Love You (Maledetti vi amerò), and has been a staple in the Italian film industry ever since. Often dealing in period dramas and coming-of-age sagas (often with epic running times, such as one of his most celebrated titles, 2003’s The Best of Youth), his latest is in keeping with his thematic interests, spanning the childhood of a troubled young pianist in 1980s Vicenza.… Read the rest
