Problems of Classification: A Few Traits in Four Films by Ermanno Olmi

Problems of Classification: A Few Traits in Four Films by Ermanno Olmi

Written for A Man Called Ermanno: Olmi’s Cinema and Works, published by Edições Il Sorpasso (in Lisbon) in May 2012. A French translation of this essay has been published in Trafic #91, automne 2014. — J.R. For me, the cinema is a state of mind and a process of analysis from a series of detailed observations. — Ermanno Olmi, from a 1988 interview (1) 1 Ermanno Olmi first became well known as a filmmaker during the period in the early 1960s when …