Le Quattro Volte ...

... is a enigmatic poignant film by Michelangelo Frammartino. I do not think that I completely understood it but time did indeed slow down as if you were wandering alone in a slightly-forgotten small medieval Italian village. It reminded me of the cyclical nature of the universe; fallen leaves, snow covered landscape, birth of a goat, death of a man, fear of abandonment, festive joy, tree, log and smoke.  The title comes from Pythagoras and spoke of each of us having four lives within us; the mineral, the vegetable, the animal and the human. Maybe it is impossible to truly understand the universe and we can only participate in its internal clock, trying to walk in its pace ...