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Christ Stopped At Eboli

1979, Movie, NR, 120 mins

Christ Stopped At Eboli: Review

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Francesco Rosi turns again to a historical figure (he has also filmed the lives of Salvatore Giuliano, Lucky Luciano, and Enrico Mattei) as the basis for this picture. This time Rosi's subject is the anti-Fascist writer-painter Carlo Levi, whose titular autobiographical novel has had worldwide success. The film follows a period in Levi's life of political exile in the tiny southern Italian village of Lucania, a place where Mussolini felt this northern intellectual could do no harm. Levi (Gian Maria Volonte) arrives in the mid-1930s via rail at Eboli, a beautiful peasant town whose simple inhabitants have been kept at a comfortable distance from the Fascist happenings in the rest of the country. Through most of the film, Levi is a passive observer, and the result is less a work of narrative fiction than it is a dramatized ethnographic study. While the film's episodic structure and slow pace tend to alienate even the most accepting viewer, Volonte's subtle and powerful performance is reason enough to see Rosi's film. (In Italian; English subtitles.) leave a comment
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