The war is far away, but ever so close, in Battleground (Campo di Battaglia), director Gianni Amelio’s sober study of doctors treating wounded soldiers in Italy as World War I comes to a close.
The battleground in veteran Italian director Gianni Amelio’s atmospheric feature is nominally Europe in the last furlong of the 1914-18 conflict, but the real subject is the war that the Italian ...
1918 in Italy was, a title reminds us, “the year of victory.” Yet the first images in Gianni Amelio’s WWI-set “Battleground” are anything but triumphal: a pile of bloodied soldiers’ bodies glinting ...
The latest by director Gianni Amelio stars Alessandro Borghi and Gabriel Montesi as physicians with opposing views on their duties to injured soldiers and the battle they're fighting. By Jordan ...