Problems of Classification: A Few Traits in Four Films by Ermanno Olmi

Written for an Italian publication about Olmi and published there earlier this month. — J.R.


For me, the cinema is a state of mind and a process of analysis from a series of detailed observations.
– Ermanno Olmi, from a 1988 interview (1)





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Ermanno Olmi first became well known as a filmmaker during the period in [...]