Bellavista
Peter Schreiner / Austria / 2006 / 117 min / Black and white
Bellavista (meaning lovely view), is the name of many hotels found in the mountains, including one in Sappada, a linguistic enclave in the Carnic Alps on the border between Italy and Austria. Giuliana, Piero and Diana's only daughter, lives abroad for many years before coming home to live with her aging parents and to help run the family's hotel with her brother. Two terrible accidents and the death of another brother preci- pate Giuliana's return. As she works in the hotel kitchen, Giuliana studies the dialect she spoke as a child-Plodar, or Sappadino. The film accompanies Giuliana on her visits to the elderly inhabitants of her native village as she comes to terms with the ups and downs of her own life. This is an intense and melancholy portrait that stimulates reflection on life in the mountains and how one can be made to feel a prisoner of this existence.
Peter Schreiner
Credits
Language German, Italian, Plodar DialectScreenplay Peter Schreiner, Giuliana Pachner Cinematography Peter Schreiner Editing Peter Schreiner Production company Echtzeitfilm/Peter Schreiner
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