The Soil and the Soiled

Ermanno Olmi, the Italian filmmaker, has made at least three pictures I rate among the finest I know: Il posto (The Job, but distributed under the asinine title The Sound of Trumpets), The Fiances, and One Fine Day. I have not seen his first film, Time Stood Still, about which I hear good things; his later work ranges from interesting to disappointing, including one whopping fiasco about Pope John. Olmi is something of an anomaly among Italian directors, almost all of whom are more or less Left-oriented urban non-believers, and all of whom are based in Rome. Olmi, however, has remained close to

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Ermanno Olmi, the Italian filmmaker, has made at least three pictures I rate among the finest I know: Il posto (The Job, but distributed under the asinine title The Sound of Trumpets), The Fiances, and One Fine Day. I have not seen his first film, Time Stood Still, about which I hear good things; his later work ranges from interesting to disappointing, including one whopping fiasco about Pope John. Olmi is something of an anomaly among Italian directors, almost all of whom are more or less Left-oriented urban non-believers, and all of whom are based in Rome. Olmi, however, has remained close to

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