Roberto Minervini

  • Roberto Minervini – What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (2018)

    2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryRoberto MinerviniUSA

    What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire is the story of a community of black people in the American South during the summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of black men sent shockwaves throughout the country. A meditation on the state of race in America, this film is an intimate portrait into the lives of those who struggle for justice, dignity, and survival. Written by X (IMDB)Read More »

  • Roberto Minervini – Stop the Pounding Heart (2013)

    2011-2020DocumentaryDramaRoberto MinerviniUSA

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    Sara is a young girl raised in a family of goat farmers. Her parents homeschool their twelve children, rigorously following the precepts of the Bible. Like her sisters, Sara is taught to be a devout woman, subservient to men, while keeping her emotional and physical purity intact until marriage. When Sara meets Colby, a young amateur bull rider, she is thrown into crisis, questioning the only way of life she has ever known. In a stunning portrayal of contemporary America and the insular communities that dot its landscape, Stop the Pounding Heart is an exploration of adolescence, family and social values, gender roles, and religion in the rural American South. Minervini s contemplative, inwardly-focused filmmaking method has evoked comparisons to such auteurs as Robert Bresson, Terrence Malick and Carlos Reygadas, while the way he approaches his subjects gives his work an almost ethnographic flavor à la Jean Rouch.Read More »

  • Roberto Minervini – Low Tide (2012)

    2011-2020DramaRoberto MinerviniUSA

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    A 12 year old boy and his single mother live parallel lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. The boy’s solitude is both a source of freedom and a cause for grief. His explorations slowly bring to light the dark contrast between the rules of society and the laws of nature. And before long, the delicate balance of his inner world becomes shattered by unforeseen events.Read More »

  • Roberto Minervini – The Other Side (2015)

    2011-2020DocumentaryRoberto MinerviniUSA

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    In an invisible territory at the margins of society, at the border between anarchy and illegality, lives a wounded community that is trying to respond to a threat: of being forgotten by society’s institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love, ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world, floundering young women and future mothers, and old men and women who have not lost their desire to live. In this hidden pocket of humanity opens the abyss of today’s America.

    This follows Minervini’s Texas Trilogy, comprised of The Passage, Low Tide and Stop the Pounding Heart.Read More »

  • Roberto Minervini – Low Tide (2012)

    2011-2020DramaRoberto MinerviniUSA

    29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152

    Quote:
    A 12 year old boy and his single mother live parallel lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. The boy’s solitude is both a source of freedom and a cause for grief. His explorations slowly bring to light the dark contrast between the rules of society and the laws of nature. And before long, the delicate balance of his inner world becomes shattered by unforeseen events.Read More »

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