Il buco

"(It) adopts a rigorously objective, pointedly nonhuman point of view."

"The film declines to offer up its meaning, or its reason for being, and asks us to think about something outside the passage of time."

"This is a film as delicate as dripping water, with depths that are quietly waiting to be plumbed."

"In excluding conversation, commentary, analysis, context, and personality, Frammartino is a cinematic Icarus: he strains high for sublimity and finds a deck of picture postcards."

"Il Buco is certainly thoughtful and worthwhile, but perhaps just short of the revelation we were hoping for."

"For all its striking images, Il Buco is ultimately, like the sinkhole that its subjects explore, a dead end."

"Il Buco proves that cinema still has the capacity to astonish in a very innocent, childlike way as a medium in which light illuminates a black screen and creates beauty."

"The film offers a substantial degree of exploration for those willing to do the work and take the dive."

"This singular, awe-striking reenactment of an Italian cave exploration from the 1960s is one of the year’s major achievements."

"Il Buco is a soothing watch best viewed in the darkness of a cinema."