It often happens that on the big screen food is metaphor, suggestion, context. Rarer that it becomes the absolute protagonist. This happened with La quinta stagione, a docufilm by Giuseppe Carrieri written by Paola Valeria Jovinelli for Identità Golose and presented at the Giornate degli Autori of the 82nd Venice Film Festival.
On screen parade landscapes, dishes, nature and poetry thanks to the five protagonists who cook, think, decide. The five chefs do not play themselves: they simply are. And it is in this authenticity that the docufilm finds its strength. The narrating voice of Isabella Ragonese at the beginning and the end guides the viewer on a journey that is not celebration but intimate storytelling, made of daily gestures and radical choices.
