The Lark Farm (La Masseria delle allodole)

The Lark Farm (La Masseria delle allodole) (2007)

  • 66% of users liked it
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As adapted from the roman by Antonia Arslan and co-directed by legendary Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, The Lark Farm marks one of the few international features to tackle the Armenian genocide head-on. The story (with its thematic parallels, in the early scenes, to De Sica's 1970… More

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Feb 14, 2007 Wide
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Critic Reviews

  • Phil Hall, IdentityTheory

    An extremely uneven melodrama.

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    ...the whole thing rarely rises above the level of a glorified soap opera.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Cynthia S


    Very dramatic, just like most Italian directed films. If you can get past that, this wasn't all that bad. The subject is a good one to learn about..yet another atrocity of humanity. A decent attempt at a well done film.

  • Jan Marc M


    Depicting the mass decimation of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915, The Lark Farm genuinely exposes the relationship of identity and violence. The excessive loyalty to identity is the centripetal cause of violence, most evident in human world history. Profound. Piercing.

  • Walter M


    The Armenian genocide sits at the start of the 20th century's house of horrors, constantly denied by the Turkish government. It has also to my knowledge only been depicted on film a couple of times. In Atom Egoyan's "Ararat," it is in a totally roundabout way in… More

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