Narrative
The lush, breathtaking beauty of the Alps, captured with painterly grace in natural light from cold winter to refreshing spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio. Maura Delpero’s visionary film won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. This extraordinary portrait of a growing family is set in the small mountain village of Vermiglio at the end of World War II. in the city, leaving the army behind. There, the soldier begins an affair with the family’s eldest daughter, Lucia (Martina Scrinzi). ‘Vermiglio’ depicts the life of a provincial family in a remote village frozen in time by the customs of a fading era. Conjuring up stories from his family’s past, Delpero creates a deeply personal and human story that evokes the great neorealist movement in Italian cinema, but from Lucia’s perspective, Vermiglio feels unique and new.