Overview

• Rosi's film premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.
• Shot in black-and-white, it assembles a mosaic of Naples-area lives, including emergency operators, a teacher, a prosecutor pursuing tomb robbers and sailors unloading Ukrainian grain.
• Mount Vesuvius frames the portrait, with archival material and the Circumvesuviana rail motif evoking layered history.
• Seismic anxiety surfaces in calls to the fire department after tremors, including a 4.2 magnitude quake described as the area’s largest in four decades.
• Made over three years with concurrent editing, the film features Daniel Blumberg’s experimental soundscape and an underwater Baia sequence captured as a single shot.