Leave the Saints Alone
MovieTitle | Lascia stare i santi |
User score | 7.9 |
Release date | Jan 30, 2017 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Gianfranco Pannone |
Production country | Italy |
Production companies | Istituto Luce Cinecittà |
Run time | 75 min. |
A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional processions... are the expression of a need for the sacred that seems very distant from our way of being, but perhaps is not that distant at all. Today, especially in the South, but with some “isolated” locations in the North, popular faith is still a very real thing, which finds its finest expression in song and in music.