The Mute Man of Sardinia
2021 [ITALIAN]
Drama
5.9/10
219
Plot summary
Gallura, the mid-1800s. The feud between the Vasa and Mamia families – historically documented – is causing bloodshed in the region. Bastiano Tansu, a deaf-mute since birth, is one of its protagonists. Mistreated and marginalized since his childhood, after his brother Michele was murdered he joined forces with one of the two leaders of the factions, Pietro Vasa, and put at his service his fury and his amazing aim, becoming a highly feared assassin. The State and the Church try to stem the wave of terror and only after more than 70 deaths, the peace of Aggius arrives. At first, Bastiano finds peace in his love for a pastor's daughter, but in a violent and superstitious world that already labeled him the devil's son when he was just a boy, someone like him cannot be found innocent. Thus, he chooses to confront his own destiny.
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Movie Reviews
Sicilian scheme in Sardinia, because Italian.
It's okay
Plot is okay even though it is a bit formulaic, you know what is going to happen. One think that made me laugh is that in mid XIX century rural Sardinia every one wears such beautiful, sumptuous clothes. Even people who spend years hiding in the woods, mountains and caves look like the just had their clothes laundered, the shirts are blindingly white and there is no speck of dirt on the black coats.
Some lines of dialogue are spoken in the Sardinian language that is, apparently, very difficult to understand in Italy and is considered endangered as young Sardinians do not use it anymore. And that was for me the most interesting thing in the whole movie.
