Coatti

6.0 / 10

(3 votes)

Stavros and Charlotte - i.e. the director and his partner in life and art, Charlotte van Gelder - are wandering the streets of a burdensome reality like immigrants, tracing the world around them through friendships, journeys and political quests. Made with minimal means with a few rolls of black and white film they managed to scrape together, this is a thoroughly unconventional film that defies traditional narrative structures, spectacularly revealing the director's true vision: a primordial cinema full of imagery that comes out of nowhere and communicates freely, like a small wonder. A large slice of the international film critic community - including Frenchman Louis Skorecki who described the film as a comet - will adore "Coatti" and continue to support Tornes' lonely path until the end.

Country:

Italy,

Greece

Genre:
Duration:

76 minutes

Year:

1977

Director:

Stavros Tornes

Cast:
Pierre Loui Abner

Roberto De Angelis

Mahdi Michel

Fabricio Carbone

Pipo Caponera

Crew:
Charlotte Van Gelder

Screenplay

Marcos Spinello

Editor

Ricci Albanese

Director of Photography

Nico D'Alessandria

Sound

Ezio Bellani

Director of Photography