The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
Directed by Vittorio Taviani
The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.
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Brothers who team up as moviemakers are often organic virtuosos—think the Tavianis in The Night of the Shooting Stars and Kaos , the Coens in No Country for Old Men and Inside Llewyn Davis , or, in a pop, sci-fi/fantasy vein, the Wachowskis in The Matrix.
As with the Taviani Brothers' "The Night of the Shooting Stars," whose richly textured lyricism it recalls, the film's events occur in that glimmering land where first loves are forever young and Duke Wayne never died.