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Enigma (1988)

Enigma poster
Directed by
Jean Rouch
Genre
documentary film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 55m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mysterious person hires a forger to paint a canvas that the artist Giorgio de Chirico never completed during his stay in Turin in 1911. The film recreates the mood of de Chirico's metaphysical art by focusing on the city's architecture and the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche.

meditativemysteriouscontemplativeatmosphericslow-pacedmetaphysicalambientphilosophical

What happens

Enigma è un film del 1988 diretto da Alberto Chiantaretto, Marco di Castri, Daniele Pianciola e Jean Rouch. Un misterioso personaggio incarica un falsario di dipingere il quadro che Giorgio de Chirico durante il suo soggiorno a Torino nel 1911 non riuscì a realizzare. L'atmosfera del film vuole ricreare le suggestioni dell'arte metafisica di De Chirico insistendo sull'aspetto architettonico della città e sul pensiero di Friedrich Nietzsche che risiedette in questa città quando fu colto dalla pazzia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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