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Keep your eyes on Pietro Marcello‘s Lost and Beautiful, a 16mm-shot journey through the Italian countryside that has earned some of the year’s finest notices, foreign-language film or otherwise. A spate of festival appearances will, to our good fortune, be followed by a U.S. release from Grasshopper Film; that begins in a couple of weeks’ time, and there’s now a domestic preview to announce the occasion.

Evoking mystery, nostalgia, mysticism, and multiple forms, it promises much — much that Lost and Beautiful has delivered upon, if most of the word from August 2015 onward has in fact been accurate.

Watch the preview below:

Synopsis:

Despite death threats from the Mafia and his country’s general apathy, a humble shepherd, Tommaso, takes it upon himself to look after the abandoned Bourbon palace of Carditello, deep in the heart of the ‘Land of Fires.’ One day, Tommaso is seized by a heart attack and dies; but not before making a final wish. He summons a masked character named Pulcinella to rescue a buffalo calf called Sarchiopone from the forsaken palace. Together, man and beast, embark on a long journey through a lost and beautiful Italy, searching for something which may no longer exist. Shot on expired 16mm stock, Lost and Beautiful is a ravishing work that heralds the arrival of an extraordinary new filmmaker.

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Lost and Beautiful will begin its U.S. run at New York’s Lincoln Center on December 9 and expand from there.

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