Siff 2021 | 18 ^ Edizion

“D Minor” is a film that explores the universal power of music to connect a young musician’s life with the divine. Through the relationship with his master, the heartbeats and the sounds of nature, the film reveals the ontological message of God. In the midst of life’s storms, music becomes the guide to find the way home and embrace love and humility. Set in Sicily, the film tells the myth of mermaids, Greek tragedy, theater and the welcome of foreigners and dead migrants. Addressing the environmental emergency, the story highlights the importance of seeking the truth, even when it leads to unwanted revelations. The soundtrack, based on Beethoven’s D minor, conveys the universal heartbeat and divine mystery.

For having been able to give substance to a modern story, but not only, by focusing, with participatory but objective delicacy and lucidity, on the theme of flow which is the search for oneself and one’s own happiness in life but inviting us to do so with conviction but without paving no one and giving us the confident concrete perspective that, at times, it is young people themselves who show us the way and for the empathetic relationship with nature with which the director punctuates the entire film which acts as a vibrational “symphony” in the background.

The very happy agreement between direction and photography to render the nightmares and dreams of escape of those who, as in this case, resort to every stratagem the mind is capable of formulating, in his wildest fantasies, to imagine himself free from the prison of family oppression ( the relationship with the mother returns again, in a tragic way in this film) when they are emotional vampires. Visionary and overwhelming with stunning photography.

This work documents the importance of voices that contribute to the success of a film, often overlooked compared to directors and actors. Before the age of TV and the internet, posters and covers played a crucial role in persuading viewers to choose a film. The “living monument” Casaro, an esteemed illustrator, deserves praise for having contributed his technical expertise and artistic talent to the seventh art.