D: Pietro Marcello | Italy | 84 min | Italian with English Subtitles | SOUTHEAST REGION PREMIERE
Italian director Pietro Marcello’s Lost and Beautiful is a jaw-dropping, Pasolini-influenced melding of Campanian myth with the true story of Tommaso Cestrone, aka the “Angel of Carditello,” the caretaker of an abandoned palace who succumbed to a heart attack during Marcello’s filming. Lost and Beautiful is also an intoxicating work of timeless magical realism – and a fine example of the exhilarating possibilities within today’s realm of cinematic nonfiction. -- LW
