Thank goodness
Films by Remo Schellino
Franco Dalmasso could be labeled a hermit or a deluded anarchist-communist who, after his political activism in the 1970s and 1980s, chose to retire and live a secluded life. But it would be reductive to label a "character" a man whose lifestyle choices seem not at all dictated by fashion, nor by a desire to hide, or, with such an extreme lifestyle, to show off, but by a profound need to "fall asleep when it's dark and wake with the light of dawn and look at the sky," as he explains in this long conversation with Remo Schellino. Of his house in the mountains of Boves, in the Cuneo province, Franco uses only the exterior: the courtyard, the porch, and the balcony where he sleeps year-round. He cultivates a vegetable garden and forages for wild herbs to heal himself, reads, and stays informed with a battery-powered radio tuned to Milan's Radio Popolare. Up there, they call him "Politics." In the film he does nothing but walk, talk about himself and reflect on the great themes of life, digging into words, expressing his vision of the world in search of being and not of having.
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