What It's About:

Set amid the magnificent, sun-scorched Sicilian landscape, this film interweaves four stories of peasant life by Luigi Pirandello to dramatic, often magical effect: a mother (Lozano) copes with her estranged son; a new bride seeks protection from an old lover (Bigagli) when she learns her husband is a moon-sick werewolf; a hunchbacked potter (Franco Franchi) gets trapped in his own creation; and a baronial landowner (Pasquale Spadola) deals with a death-bed protest from the peasants who farm his land.

Why I Love It:

The Taviani brothers (“Night of the Shooting Stars”) bring their customary humanism to this marvelous adaptation of folk tales by Nobel-winning Italian author Pirandello. Mixing a variety of tones—farcical and downbeat, funny and tragic—with scenarios both fantasy-based and salt-of-the-earth, “Kaos” blends its four tales of bandits and beasts and literary ghosts into an epic, moving tapestry of turn-of-the-century rustic life. An exhilarating experience!