(1977) Padre Padrone
(In Italian with English subtitles)
AUTO BIOGRAPHICAL
Adapted from the book by Gavino Ledda written and directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani that has a father (Omero Antonutti) pulling his very young son, Gavino (Fabrizio Forte) out of class to get him to work as his sheepherder. He does though promises his son a proper education by the time he reaches the age of twenty years. As we see Gavino as a little boy with strict orders to the time the movie jumps to as soon as he turns twenty years old, Saverio Marconi how he obtained his first musical instrument, which is an accordion. And of course, when Gavino's father promised him an education, he only able to learn how read and write through the correspondence once he was enlisted in the military.
That although the father had other siblings, why is he the most hard on him when there are others who can work on the farming and the gardening as well. It states the father's abuses as well as his ways but without any explanation or clarity about his reasons why he does the things that he does which raises more questions than it answers, and instead expect viewers to accept the way it was.
At the opening of the movie, viewers see an adult man carving the twigs out of a thin tree limb before he hands it to the father who was pulling his son out of class at a very young age. At the time I didn't think much of it up until the very end where he is shown again and this time he tells viewers he is Gavino Ledda and is 35 years old. That the young man I saw at the opening is what "Gavino Ledda" looked like now the current time the movie was made back in 1977.
It was also interesting how, the we be able to hear what some of the characters are thinking and not just it's two main characters of Gavino and his father.
