In a typical scene from “An Endless Sunday,” three teenage delinquents wander beside a canal. They end up killing a frog with a brick. Another group of children slightly younger than they are are a…
,” three teenage delinquents wander beside a canal. They end up killing a frog with a brick. Another group of children slightly younger than they are are also mucking about, and one of them is playing the recorder, blasting out a wobbly but recognizable version of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the second movement. It’s a musical cue that in cinema, when accompanying youths up to no good, evokes Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.
Set in and around Rome, “An Eternal Sunday” assumes a pointed piquancy as young people ponder their lack of a future in the Eternal City. For these Italian characters, growing up in a place with such a strong sense of history, in an era where the future seems uncertain, Italy’s storied past is an oppressive and irrelevant burden.
Older people are notable by their absence: They simply don’t factor much in the teenagers’ sense of the world. Brenda’s grandmother is the strongest influence, passing on witchy traditions rooted in folkloric beliefs around birth and death, while Alex’s mentor figure is an elderly German sheep farmer and small-time crook who appears to have been dealt a pretty tough hand in life himself.
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