Vesuvius — the very name sounds ancient, rhythmically mythical, so tied into tales of a destroyed past that one almost forgets it’s still very much in the ordinary, existing present. The legendary cone doesn’t exactly loom large in Gianfranco Rosi’s “Below the Clouds,” a wandering, granular documentary study of its surrounding landscape and population. Instead, […]
‘Below the Clouds’ Review: Nothing Erupts in Gianfranco Rosi’s Lyrical Vesuvius Portrait, But It Brims With Life and Contrast
