Like that abyss, the film offers a substantial degree of exploration for those willing to do the work and take the dive.
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The Playlist by Charles Bramesco
Frammartino handles the collision between a vanishing then and the encroaching now with a light touch, mournful yet not quite damning.
A docufiction that tenderly, wordlessly and rather too obliquely recreates a 1961 speleological expedition to measure the depth of an unexplored crevasse in Italy’s Calabria region.
Il Buco proves that cinema still has the capacity to astonish in a very innocent, childlike way as a medium in which light illuminates a black screen and creates beauty.
The Hollywood Reporter by Lovia Gyarkye
One could walk away with deep thoughts about modernity and the relationship between nature and man, but that’s not required. Appreciating the beauty of an intricate process unfolding is more than enough.
It’s not quite a documentary, yet nor is it exactly a narrative feature. It lives alone; the cinematic equivalent of a hermit on a mountaintop.