A Ciambra, Jonas Carpignano’s tale of a fourteen-year-old boy growing up fast in a small Romani community in southwest Italy, is an understated, naturalistic take on a story that could easily be ...
Watch a clip from the movie "A Ciambra," directed by Jonas Carpignano. Photo: Sundance Selects If you choose to view “A Ciambra” uncharitably, you may see it as a movie with a documentary flavor about ...
Sometimes at night, Pio (Pio Amato), a 14-year-old Roma boy living on the rough edge of the southern Italian town of Gioia Tauro, sees the specter of his grandfather’s horse wandering the streets. It ...
In “A Ciambra,” Italian filmmaker Jonas Carpignano’s sort-of sequel to 2015’s “Mediterranea,” the lines between documentary and fiction are blurred to the point of non-existence. The director follows ...
Director Jonas Carpignano's encounter with a worldly young hooligan led to casting the precocious boy in his film about life in a small Italian village. By Tatiana Siegel Director Jonas Carpignano ...
Pio is 14-years-old, living with his large family in the Romani community known as the Ciambra, in south Italy. Life here is tough – the electricity is stolen, and money is made by hijacking cars for ...
Jonas Carpagnino resumes the stories of certain characters from his neo-realist debut 'Mediterranea' in this thoughtful but less arresting follow-up. Neo-realism isn’t necessarily a genre built for ...
He works in mysterious ways.
“A Ciambra” could have been more concise and better structured — a true sense of dramatic tension arises only in the late going. But the director’s connection to his characters and setting is never in ...
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. I’m still walking around with a cough that I picked up in Park City, Utah, so at least for ...
Pio is 14-years-old, living with his large family in the Romani community known as the Ciambra, in south Italy. Life here is tough – the electricity is stolen, and money is made by hijacking cars for ...
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