O SOMMA LUCCE!
After an “overture” consisting of an audio recording of the debut 1954 performance of Edgar Varèse’s controversial composition Déserts, Italian literature professor Giorgio Passerone, seated on a hillside in the Tuscan town of Buti, recites the final stanzas of Dante’s Divine Comedy. “A short film of vast scope.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker