The wordless earth magic of the storytelling won’t be for everyone, but the film casts a beguiling spell.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2022

It's soothing all right. But it's also, alas, dull.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 10, 2022

Tantalising, oblique, a little frustrating, sometimes madly spectacular.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2022

This is a film as delicate as dripping water, with depths that are quietly waiting to be plumbed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2022

The film declines to offer up its meaning, or its reason for being, and asks us to think about something outside the passage of time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2022

Riveting and bewitching, a wholly immersive film, led soulfully by Frammartino’s confidence in saying less.

| May 12, 2022

Frammartino connects the physical with the metaphysical.

| May 12, 2022

The movie’s dominant strain is a strange vanity, as if embracing a God’s-eye view that the filmmaker somehow shares.

| May 12, 2022

We expect the film to dramatise this collision of cultures, yet Frammartino proves much more interested in setting up questions and leaving the audience to mull them over.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2022

A superb meld of sound, image and ruminative essence.

| Nov 16, 2021

The film meticulously evokes a 1961 speleological expedition, but its search for thematic resonance is frustratingly general.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 18, 2021

[A] masterful work of sound and sight.

| Sep 7, 2021

Frammartino handles the collision between a vanishing then and the encroaching now with a light touch, mournful yet not quite damning.

| Original Score: B | Sep 6, 2021

It's not quite a documentary, yet nor is it exactly a narrative feature. It lives alone; the cinematic equivalent of a hermit on a mountaintop.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2021

It's a magnificent piece of work, completely beguiling from end to end and one which wears its immense philosophical profundity with admirable lightness.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 6, 2021

It is the point - and also the disappointment - of "Il Buco," that there is at its heart a hole.

| Sep 6, 2021

The film offers a substantial degree of exploration for those willing to do the work and take the dive.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 6, 2021