“Ravishingly beautiful … transporting … the kind of superb, international movie that often opens only in a few theaters, if we’re lucky, before slipping into the streaming void. If you can catch it in cinemas, though, do. It’s mesmerizingly lovely, for one, and it holds you rapt with the beauty of its images and with the ideas it stirs up.”
—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times (Critic’s Pick)

“It has a sepulchral melancholy to it, gifted by Rosi’s own beautiful, high contrast, black-and-white cinematography, and his fondness for the city lit up at night.”
—Nick James, Sight and Sound

From award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi (FIRE AT SEA) comes POMPEI: BELOW THE CLOUDS, a striking documentary portrait of life in Naples, a city living in the shadow of Vesuvius. Beneath the quiet threat of eruption, people go about their days: archaeologists unearth the past, children learn as the earth hums, firefighters wait for the next call. The result is a portrait at once local and universal: a reflection on humanity’s capacity to live, love, and rebuild in the shadow of the unimaginable.