Divine Love
The film begins at night, as parishioners holding lanterns form a series of processions, travelling through the night from Rome, and villages in the Abruzzi and Lazio regions, to make it to the Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore, 10 miles from the capital, by morning. More than an anthropological study of ecstatic devotion – with its genuflecting disciples, and women who scream desperately at the sky – Divino Amore also speaks to Mangini’s interest in disappearing rituals and communities at risk of extinction. When generations of worshippers pour out of the church at the end of the service, formality dissolves into secular leisure, as families perched on horse carts eat plates of spaghetti and men fall asleep on the grass. The velvet-clad austerity of the church’s interior gives way to a series of pastoral tableaux.
Year: 1961
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Documento Film
Director: Cecilia Mangini
Cast:
Crew: Giuseppe De Mitri (Director of Photography), Cecilia Mangini (Writer), Enrico Pagliaro (Camera Operator), Egisto Macchi (Original Music Composer), Cecilia Mangini (Director), Renato May (Editor)
Runtime: 11 minutes
Release: Feb 01, 1961
IMDb: 5.50/10 by 2 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Italy
Language: No Language
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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