Into Darkest Albania

摘要

Lamerica, the best new italian film to reach our shores in years, is shot in CinemaScope, the format of epics, wide-screen adventures and sweeping American vistas. But the harshly impressive landscapes in Gianni Amelio's powerful movie belong to a country we haven't been allowed until now to see on screen. Welcome to Albania, a country that from 1944 to 1991 was sealed off to the West under the draconian communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha. Though it's only 70 miles from the coast of Italy, the chaotic, poverty-stricken land Amelio captures in his indelible images seems to belong to another century, if not another planet.