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Alessio Rigo de Righi

[On 'Il Solengo', with Matteo Zoppis] "There’s a curiosity that drives us, I think. This desire to discover those stories. We want to find new stories that are told in a certain way and by certain kinds of people – all in a certain kind of environment, too."

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    The Tale of King Crab

    THE TALE OF KING CRAB

    ALESSIO RIGO DE RIGHI, MATTEO ZOPPIS Italy, 2021

    Drawing its idiosyncratic power from the wellsprings of legend, this ecstatic folktale travels from 19th-century Italy to Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego. A primal meditation on the potency of storytelling, The Tale of King Crab is a redemptive fable charged with mythic grandeur and elemental beauty.

    Il Solengo

    IL SOLENGO

    ALESSIO RIGO DE RIGHI, MATTEO ZOPPIS Italy, 2015

    This unique documentary, shot in the mountains outside Rome, explores the true legend of a local hermit. A probing look at loneliness and eccentricity that is at once beautiful, curious, and revealing. In Il solengo, an unusual subject is portrayed through an inspired form.

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