Word: omero
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...epilogue, Pirandello (Omero Antonutti) visits his old village two years after his mother's death. An aged carriage driver seems vaguely familiar; then Luigi remembers--"You're Saro!"--and the driver smiles back, suddenly as young as he was in Moon Sickness, and as vibrant as only a creature of the imagination can be. Once at home Luigi conjures up a vision of his mother, who recalls an incident from her adolescence, when she and her siblings stopped at an isolated pumice-stone island near Malta. They climbed to the top of a white dune, then bounded gaily down toward...
...their prodigy, appears. What drives him mad is not open acknowledgment of his secret, but the boy's indifference to it. What's all the fuss, Edo sleepily wonders, about the central issue of his would-be mentor's life. The next to go is Diego (Omero Antonutti). Encouraged by youth's unconscious example, he vainly seeks to reclaim the woman he loved and abandoned when he was Edo's age. The boy might be moved by Diego's plight, but just at the moment he is involved with a girl revolutionary he smuggled...
...mining by the Germans--each house crucified with a fatal slash of green paint--and the inhabitants have been ordered to gather in the Cathedral while their tiny community is to be blown up. A group of men, women, and children, under the leadership of the grizzled elder Galvano (Omero Antonutti), decide to break away from the huddled, frightened villagers and march out to grasp liberation rather than waiting for it timorously...
...particular scene in Padre, Padrone (Italian for My Father, My Master) goes a long way towards capturing the purpose and theme of this film that dazzled the critics at last year's Cannes Film Festival. A portrait-type shot encompasses the entire family of a Sardinian peasant, Efisio Ledda (Omero Antonutti), seated in the waiting room of a local bank. Compelled to sell his recently inherited farmland in the face of low olive prices and a disastrous winter, the paterfamilias informs his two sons and two daughters of the plans he has drawn up for each of them--marriage, working...
...panting of a chorus of unseen copulators overwhelms the action. Later, a moment of incongruous accordion music smashes the film's pastoral hush to prefigure Ledda's liberation from the enforced silence of his youth. While the film is vibrantly photographed and generally well acted (notably by Omero Antonutti as the father and Fabrizio Forte as the young Ledda), the sound track is the true star...