The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte)

The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte) (2011)

  • 92% of critics liked it
    (52 reviews)

  • 73% of users liked it
    (1,796 ratings)

An idyllic village in Italy's mountainous region of Calabria is the setting for LE QUATTRO VOLTE, an exquisitely filmed take on the cycles of life. Structured in four parts, per its title ("four times"), it opens with a shepherd tending his herd of goats, then shifts focus to one goat… More

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Mar 30, 2011 Limited
Lorber Films

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    I drifted pleasantly in its depths.

  • Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

    Le Quattro Volte may sound like art-house tedium, but in fact it's a movie of grave beauty, serene pace and surprising humor.

  • Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

    Give Le Quattro Volte the patience it deserves, and you will be captivated by its stately rhythms, transfixed by its strange imagery, and moved by its sudden dramas. Don't, and you'll be bored to tears.

  • Peter Howell, Toronto Star

    If Dante hadn't already made classic use of the title, Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte could instead have been called The Divine Comedy.

  • Trevor Johnston, Time Out

    Explaining it makes it sound aridly abstract, but watching it is pure delight...

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  • c0up  


    'Le Quattro Volte'. A highly unique film, exemplifying the visual medium of communication, documenting life moving from one form to another, in a town mostly untouched by the modern world, with large doses of humour thrown in! For all intents and purposes, there is no… More

  • Anthony L


    Le Quattro Volte quite simply and quite beautifully explains or symbolises the 4 stages of life. The 4 stages; Birth, Life, Death and finally the reabsorbing back into the earth/nature are shown here in the life of a few individuals (and Goats) in a medieval Italian village. A lot of… More

  • Greg S


    An Italian goatherd dies, then a goat born and dies, then a tree is cut down and made into charcoal in this slow moving, dialogue-free experiment. It's all made to illustrate Pythagoras' lesser-known theorem that humans are made up of the rational, the animal, the vegetable… More

  • William D


    "Le Quattro Volte" is a wordless nature documentary that is captivating for about 30 minutes. Director Michelangelo Frammartino (his second feature film) photographs an old man tending goats in a small Italian village where life has not changed much in 500 years. Frammartino… More

  • Walter M


    "Le Quattro Volte" starts and begins with scenes set around a coal furnace. The next sound we hear is the constant cough of an elderly shepherd(Giuseppe Fuda) who continues to work well into old age because he did not invest wisely in his 401k. In exploring themes of the… More

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