Palermo or Wolfsburg
- heavy
- slow-burn
- intense
- bleak
- signature
An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.
Our read · Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive drama · migration · golden bear entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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