Women of Molise
Realizador Agapit Di Pilla
Países Italy
Duração 97 min
Sinopse
The film follows the journey of filmmaker Agapito Di Pilla as he searches for the women photographed by Frank Monaco in 1950 in rural southern Italy. Born in New York, photographer Frank Monaco grew up hearing his mother's vivid tales about her native village, Cantalupo del Sannio, in the mountainous and wild region of Molise. In his regular visits to Molise, Monaco used to take pictures to report to his mother. Soon enough, he became the chronicler of the life in the community, documenting its births, deaths, festivities and social cu stoms with tremendous warmth and grace. In particular, his recurrent subjects were the women of Cantalupo. Strong, dignified mothers, left behind from their husbands, who in those times emigrated to earn a better leaving, to work the land and raise the families. Decades after, Monaco’s black-and-white pictures are the track to reconstruct a piece of history of Molise in the aftermath of WWII.
The film follows the journey of filmmaker Agapito Di Pilla as he searches for the women photographed by Frank Monaco in 1950 in rural southern Italy. Born in New York, photographer Frank Monaco grew up hearing his mother's vivid tales about her native village, Cantalupo del Sannio, in the mountainous and wild region of Molise. In his regular visits to Molise, Monaco used to take pictures to report to his mother. Soon enough, he became the chronicler of the life in the community, documenting its births, deaths, festivities and social cu stoms with tremendous warmth and grace. In particular, his recurrent subjects were the women of Cantalupo. Strong, dignified mothers, left behind from their husbands, who in those times emigrated to earn a better leaving, to work the land and raise the families. Decades after, Monaco’s black-and-white pictures are the track to reconstruct a piece of history of Molise in the aftermath of WWII.