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Below the Clouds

Documentary

2025, Movie, 1h 54min

The ground shakes periodically and the fumaroles of the Phlegraean Fields taint the air. From the traces of history, memories of the subterranean world, and the concerns of the present, in black and white, a lesser-known Naples emerges and fills with voices, with lives. Below the clouds lies a territory crisscrossed by locals, worshippers, tourists, and archaeologists excavating a past that in museums will give new life and meaning to statues, fragments, and ruins. The train that rings Vesuvius makes its rounds as racehorses train along the shore. A teacher runs a makeshift afterschool for children and adolescents. Firemen in their command center calm the fears of the locals who call in, law enforcement tracks down tomb robbers, while in the port of Torre Annunziata, Syrian tankers unload Ukrainian grain. The land that skirts the gulf is a vast time machine.

Country: Italy,France

Director:

Gianfranco Rosi

Reviews

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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It is an intensely disquieting, utterly distinctive film and a superb final panel to his triptych.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Marshall Shaffer

rated

The film leaves us with a haunting sense of life in Naples existing in a liminal state.

Read full review at Slant Magazine

Critic Sheila O'Malley

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Time destroys, preserves, and then returns (one hopes, at least). Rosi’s film is a meditative and moving document showing that process and possibility.

Read full review at Roger Ebert