Four separate-but-interconnected stories - one for each season - about life in Sardinia.
Cinematography
Sardinia shot like a character — harsh, beautiful, indifferent.
Direction
Mereu's patient observation lets life happen, not perform.
Acting
Abecassis carries autumn's ache with minimal dialogue.
Director
Salvatore Mereu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mereu cast mostly non-professional Sardinian locals; Yaël Abecassis was the only established star, creating deliberate friction between outsider and insider perspectives.
The 5.5 TMDB rating reflects its festival circuit obscurity — this is deliberate slow cinema that punishes impatient viewers, which is kind of the point.
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