25 February 2010

Professor Pasquale Verdicchio, director of the San Diego Italian Film Festival reviews Uno degli Ultimi.

Uno degli ultimi (One of the Last) is film maker Paul Zinder’s short on 78 year old Mauro, a Tuscan farmer who believes that “The happiness of man–of all living things–is made up of little things.” Living this philosophy of life fully, Mauro continues to enjoy his life in farming in the old ways, without heavy machinery, without chemical fertilizers and pesticides, reaping and sharing the fruits of his labour… This film celebrates a life that is as simple as it is celebratory of that simplicity. A life that revels in picking olives, cherries and working the land without the mediation of the “simplification” of the technologies of mass production, lived by an old gentleman who wonders why anyone would want to live otherwise.