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Three-Step Dance (Ballo a tre passi)

German title: Ballo a tre passi (Tanz in drei Schritten)
Spain title: Baile a tres pasos
Russian title: Танец на три шага
Original title: Ballo a tre passi

Alternative titles:
Baile a tres pasos | Three Step Dancing

Episodic film – Italy
Production year: 2003
Movie length: 107 minutes

Director: Salvatore Mereu
Writer: Salvatore Mereu
Cinematograph: Renato Berta, Tommaso Borgstrom, Paolo Bravi, Nicolas Franick
Music: Gian Paolo Mele Corriga

Movie description:

To appreciate Salvatore Mereu’s handsome, slowly unfolding film, set in contemporary Sardinia, be prepared for a movie that plunks you into a rural, primitive environment with a much slower metabolism than the nerve-jangling world of instant communications. Jets may roar overhead, and glamorous international nomads take the sun at a beachfront resort. But over most of the Sardinia’s beautiful, rugged landscape, life goes on pretty much as it always has, and most the characters seem barely cognizant of creeping globalization. Consisting of four, loosely connected vignettes, each set in a different season, »Three Step Dancing« parachutes you in to this world and demands that you to fend for yourself. At its most absorbing, the movie has the pace and patient, nonjudgmental gaze of a Taviani Brothers epic that slows time and observes the procession of life without comment.

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