Voce dei Canti

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth Carmelo Bene returns to the verses of the poet from Recanati In this film the most beautiful poems by Giacomo Leopardi La Ginestra Il Canto Notturno Le Ricordanze A Silvia LInfinito but also some passages from the Moral Operettas as well as the unfinished Project for a hymn at Ahrimane follow one another with deep and moving simplicity with a quiet immediacy that causes the void of every other voice therefore the listenere is ensnared in the pauses bewitched by the unexpected descents of silence The voice assumes a dark and ancestral tone in which the words seem to find their original nuances