A generous tribute to the Great Mother made by a man, as well as a film director. As a Christian Italian woman, I see Holy Mary's presence safely nestled in the dreams that women all over the world nurture as they deliver both humankind and their dreams. Those very same women who manage to bring to light the gestation of a dream and, as in all dreams, a force, a sort of John the Baptist that baptizes people and with his gaze can fecundate the seed.
Nino Tropiano's gaze, precisely because it's outwardly "masculine", is able to both fecundate and make blossom a woman who needed to recognize in herself those "male" qualities like virility and vigor, a part from docility, in order to fully welcome the flow of events while remaining still and strong to free herself from the constraints of a castrating society.
In Samira, the protagonist of the film, I see the tenacity of Saint Bakhita and the ancient power of the Black Madonna. As in every man, there is a hidden "feminine" energy, in every woman lies the "masculine" one. True education frees the female, which in turn frees humanity, educating to respect the power of the deepest recesses of the unconscious and Mother Earth without being overwhelmed by them, in an equal and erotic balance of these two forces, in mystical marriage childbirth takes place.
It is by recognizing and honoring the roots that can give lifeblood to the Tree of Life stretched towards the divinization of the human that the second birth takes place. Not least in Africa geographically and humanly is par-excellence the Black Madonna, where the heart of the Great Mother, who lived through everything humanly possible including sufferings and abuses and that every grace She can only dispense, loved by her Bridegroom who for the love for her, gives everything, crowned with thorns with Him, with docile female submission, in marriage with Him also unleashes the storm, which saw Jesus slumber, while all the blind were agitated.
Earthquakes shake consciences and lift them up. The film moved me from the first moment to the last. Ideally, to be screened in every school, not only for pupils but for the education of teachers, because of its beauty and the harmony of visual and sound form and the natural wisdom both gently and powerfully subversive of its content.