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Sacro GRA

2013 · 93 min

A patient, observational drift through overlooked lives on the margins of a highway, quietly absorbing and gently melancholy.

Directed by
Gianfranco Rosi
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Roberto Giuliani, Franceso De Santis, Paolo Regis
Tagline
Tales from Rome's Ring Road
Overview
After the India of Varanasi’s boatmen, the American desert of the dropouts, and the Mexico of the killers of drugtrade, Gianfranco Rosi has decided to tell the tale of a part of his own country, roaming and filming for over two years in a minivan on Rome’s giant ring road—the Grande Raccordo Anulare, or GRA—to discover the invisible worlds and possible futures harbored in this area of constant turmoil. Elusive characters and fleeting apparitions emerge from the background of the winding zone: a nobleman from the Piemonte region and his college student daughter sharing a one-room efficiency in a modern apartment building along the GRA.

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Directed by
Gianfranco Rosi
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Roberto Giuliani, Franceso De Santis, Paolo Regis
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    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • isolation
    • class
    • identity
    • environment
    • loneliness
    Places
    • big city
    • road trip
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • true story
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
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    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism10
    Romance1
    Tension2
    Darkness4
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Gianfranco Rosi
    Written by
    Gianfranco Rosi
    Starring
    Roberto Giuliani, Franceso De Santis, Paolo Regis, Amelia Regis, Principe Filippo Pellegrini, Cesare Bergamini, Gaetano Finocchi, Patrizia Torselli
    Cinematography
    Gianfranco Rosi
    Runtime
    93 min
    Country
    France, Italy
    Languages
    Italian

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