Piavoli ’s lyric ode to the cycles of life charts the passages of infancy, youth, maturity and old age against the seasons of the year in the bucolic Lombardy village of Castellaro. The chimes of the clock in the town square punctuate the rhythm of life: birth, the amazements of childhood, the emotional upheavals of adolescence, the first attempts and failures in romance, the dancing, the loving, and the hallmark event of marriage. On that occasion the nostalgia for faded youth unfolds with poetic grace. Inspired by an old Italian folk saying, “Love makes time pass, and time makes love pass,” Piavoli observes the rituals of human life in much the same way MICROCOSMOS observed the insect world ’s delicate social universe. Rich in sound and glorious images, VOICES THROUGH TIME evocatively shows "the course of life like a river flowing, without whirlpools, without waterfalls, to let people consider the incessant flowing of things, the unstoppable course of time. —nwFilmCenter
Born on the 21st of June 1933 , Franco Piavoli is an independent director that handles all aspects of filmmaking : direction, editing, production, cinematography. He often shoots his films at his home in the hills of Lake Garda. Among his films are : “The Blue Planet” and “Nostos: The Return”
This is one of the greatest non-narrative films I've ever seen. Piavoli does things with editing, sound and natural light that will likely never be matched.
