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The Wide Blue Road |
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Despite its focus on the destruction of a proud man who loses his livelihood, The Wide Blue Road is a gorgeous, lyrical film refusing to be boxed in by writer-director Gillo Pontecorvo's bathetic class sympathies. Yves Montand plays Sqarciò, a fisherman on a small island off Italy's Dalmation coast. With the fishing industry squeezed by a wholesaler's monopoly, the island is beset by economic depression and strains between men who earn little by fishing legally (using a net) and those--like Squarciò--who unlawfully use dynamite. Once Squarciò is deprived of his bombs, his (and his family's) decline is a foregone conclusion in Pontecorvo's fixed-destiny universe. Yet the director is hardly blind to his setting's redemptive possibilities. The Adriatic island's clarifying air, the dreamy, epic texture of the apposition of land and sea--such elemental beauty mysteriously, simultaneously heightens and ameliorates Squarciò's predictable doom. --Tom Keogh
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