Synopsis
Seasons of the year are used to frame human life, from birth to death.
Voices Through Time
1996 ‘Voci nel tempo’ Directed by Franco Piavoli
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Spoken Language
Alternative Titles
Voices in Time, Stimmen in der Zeit, Le chant des saisons, Voces en el tiempo, 穿越时间的声音
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Italy
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27 Aug 1996
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A film that provokes an intense melancholy by recalling all the moments in life that have already passed, and by offering a wisp of a future in which those moments will have increased tenfold in number.
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“Daily walking close to Thee“
From beginning to end, sunup to sunset, green to gray, life to death—this is everything. Bodies in motion, faces in profile, delivering messages language cannot convey. It’s not that we don’t have the right words, it’s that they don’t exist.
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94/100
Truly indescribable. This is not a film, this is an experience — a pure and wonderful celebration of life. One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Final 10 minutes are utterly magnificent. -
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*Twitch Redeem by Seventh_Persona.*
"Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
-Matthew 18:3"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be…
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Piavoli's lyrical use of sounds and nature creates his own poetic cinematic language in this ode to the cycles of life - a spiritual, emotional and breathtaking love letter to existence.
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Timeless. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen something this stunning and that feels so alive yet suspended in time, like an exact moment captured in a photograph from your childhood that you vividly remember happening. It’s the stages of life all at once, it’s past, present and future simultaneously, it’s loneliness and companionship, it's beginnings and ends, and then once more. Truly the work of a poet.
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الرضيع والعجوز.. كلاهما يصعدان الدرجات بنفس الوتيرة.. ببطء وتأنٍ.. يا لها من مفارقة عن الإنسان.. كما بدأنا في الطفولة ننتهي في الكهولة.
" الزمن بطيء جدا لمن ينتظر.. سريع جدا لمن يخشى.. طويل جدا لمن يتألم.. قصير جدا لمن يحتفل.. لكنه الأبدية لمن يحب. " - ويليام شكسبير
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thank you Gabriel for recommending this!
truly feels like you’re watching a painting during certain parts. such a genuine and raw journey through the lives of others. it’s made in such a delicate way, that the faces you see almost look familiar and it’s a sort of comfort.
quite literally one of the most pure looks into human life there is and for that it is beautiful. -
Rarely am I envious of a filmmaker's talent, probably because the credit of those films accrues to me by watching, then thinking--or something like thinking. But Chris Marker and Franco Piavoli make me envious--although it's a bittersweet emotion which evaporates during the watching of their glorious work. Voici nel Tempo (1996) exhibits a humane witness inside Franco Piavoli as he utilizes his camera and direction like ceremonial tools of devotion to all life; mortal nature living here in sensual majesty alongside time and its necessary hunger.
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Franco Piavoli is already establishing himself to be one of my favorites. All three of his film that I have seen have been incredible. For instance, this film is outstandingly beautiful in just about every possible way. This is some of the best stream of consciousness film making I have seen.
With respect to spiritual film making, Piavoli more or less does with Voices Through Time that Tarkovsky did with Mirror, only the big difference here is its cinematic composition is broken down in a fashion to favor the the simplicity and tangibility of life in the collective social and spiritual body.
The way in which Voices Through Time explores human connection and growth is indelible. I was completely immersed by the screen for the entire duration.
Perhaps it lost its momentum (relatively speaking) ever so slightly around the hour mark, but it definitely picked back up. Some of the imagery in this film will not go unforgotten or unappreciated.