See this film: Le Quattro Volte at the Brattle

Recent documentaries like Sweetgrass almost mystically put the viewer in touch with the purity and rhythms of nature. Equally transcendent is Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte (2010). Contemplating an old man, a goat, a tree, and some charcoal in the idyllic setting of Calabria, Italy, the film pretty much sums up all there is to know about life and death. It screens at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge | Wednesday, August 3 @ 7:30 pm | $10; $8 students, seniors | 617.876.6837 or brattlefilm.org.