This film lives from the images and their coordination with the interesting and tasteful soundtrack by Paolo Aralla. It focuses on Carlo Scarpa's interest for Japan, for Japanese culture and architecture. There is a nice interplay between the parts of the film set in Japan and those in Venice (and elsewhere). This is not a film to acquire systematic knowledge of Scarpa and his work, as the spoken words (and/or subtitles) are rather philosophical or even poetic than explanatory (in my view they don't quite reach the standard of the images and music). There is a bit on architectural work/details and very little biographical or chronological information. But mostly the images speak for themselves. A good film if you don't expect an informative documentary (there is a tiny bit of that), but come with eyes and ears open for new impressions.

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