Vermiglio (film)

Vermiglio
Directed by	Maura Delpero
Written by	Maura Delpero
Produced by	Francesca Andreoli Maura Delpero Santiago Fondevila Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli
Starring	Giuseppe De Domenico Tommaso Ragno
Cinematography	Mikhail Krichman[1]
Edited by	Gian Luca Mattei[1]
Production companies	Cinedora Charades Versus Production Rai Cinema
Distributed by	Lucky Red (Italy)
Release date	September 2, 2024 (2024-09-02) (Venice)
Running time	119 minutes
Countries	Italy France Belgium
Language	Italian

Vermiglio is a 2024 Italian drama film written and directed by Maura Delpero.

The film premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize.^[2] It was designated as the Italian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.^[3]

1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher’s eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone’s life.

• Giuseppe De Domenico
• Tommaso Ragno
• Martina Scrinzi
• Roberta Rovelli
• Carlotta Gamba
• Orietta Notari
• Sara Serraiocco

Principal photography started on 28 August 2023,^[1] and shootings wrapped in December.^[4] The film was shot between the Vermiglio, Carciato and Comasine towns in the Trentino-Alto Adige region.^[5] It is produced by Cinedora (Italy), Charades (France), and Versus (Belgium).^[6] Delpero decided to make the film after her father's death as a way to help ensure that the traditions in which he had grown up were not lost, including conducting many interviews with local people during pre-production.^[7][8]

The film world-premiered in competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.^[9][10] It made its North American premiere at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival.^[11]

The film received general positive reviews by critics.^[12][13] On Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 10 reviews are considered positive, with an average rating of 7/10.^[14] As per Metacritic, the film has received "generally favorable reviews", with a weighted average score of 77/100 based on 6 critics' ratings.^[15]

Jessica Kiang of Variety affirmed that "economy" is the watchword of "deceptively formalist" film, that results from “deceptively formalist” direction, editing, musical compositions to costumes, contributing "to a fascinating narrative remove, which is belied by the close-up clarity of the imagery". Kiang wrote that although the plot is set in the past, it "operates like a future family secret playing out in the present tense" through " the spirit of the mothers and the sisters and the daughters who came before and after, and who trusted the imperious mountains to keep their secrets".^[16]

The film received favorable reviews from Italian film critics.^[17][18] Mattia Pasquini of Ciak wrote that like the previous film Maternal the screenplay is about the mother-child relationship set on an "extremely refined framework, both linguistically, stylistically and narratively coherent and homogeneous".^[19] Federico Pontiggia of Cinematografo stated that the film synthesizes "the previous documentary experience, with greater ambition, free will and calmness", deeming "the direction of actors excellent, the anti-spectacular hold valuable, the poetry of war and peace admirable, we have a lady author: Maura Delpero".^[20]

• List of submissions to the 97th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
• List of Italian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

• Vermiglio at IMDb