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Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025)114 minDocumentaryRating 58/100

Past and present, flesh and ash, enormity and the infinitesimal: Gianfranco Rosi’s astonishing, Venice-prizewinning documentary is a marbled study in high contrast. In bone white and velvety black, pin-sharp chiaroscuro photography screens an active volcano for the elemental geometries of life.

Director: Gianfranco Rosi