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Yves Montand, Alida Valli

Despite its focus on the destruction of a proud man who loses his livelihood, The Wide Blue Road is a gorgeous, lyrical film refusing to be boxed in by writer-director Gillo Pontecorvo's bathetic clas...( read more read more... )s sympathies. Yves Montand plays Sqarciò, a fisherman on a small island off Italy's Dalmation coast. With the fishing industry squeezed by a wholesaler's monopoly, the island is beset by economic depression and strains between men who earn little by fishing legally (using a net) and those--like Squarciò--who unlawfully use dynamite. Once Squarciò is deprived of his bombs, his (and his family's) decline is a foregone conclusion in Pontecorvo's fixed-destiny universe. Yet the director is hardly blind to his setting's redemptive possibilities. The Adriatic island's clarifying air, the dreamy, epic texture of the apposition of land and sea--such elemental beauty mysteriously, simultaneously heightens and ameliorates Squarciò's predictable doom. --Tom Keogh

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Unrated, 1 hr. 39 min.

Directed by: Gillo Pontecorvo

Release Date: June 6, 2001

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DVD Release Date: January 14, 2003

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  • arashxak
    January 5, 2008
    arashxak
    Story of a fisherman who TRIES to make a living in an EASIER way...
  • Venieza
    July 19, 2007
    Venieza
    All CLASSICS are GOOD
  • SarahJoyFrost
    December 11, 2006
    SarahJoyFrost
    i would like to see this
  • criterionmaster1
    October 24, 2006
    criterionmaster1
    I had the chance to watch this film and I missed it! I am so pissed!

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