Kaos

Kaos is a 1984 Italian anthology drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani based on short stories by Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936). The film's title is after Pirandello's explanation of the local name Càvusu of the woods near his birthplace in the neighborhood of Girgenti (Agrigento), on the southern coast of Sicily, as deriving from the ancient Greek word kaos. The film is based on Pirandello's collection Novelle per un Anno. The film was made in Italy in 1984. The cinematographer was Giuseppe Lanci, and the music was composed by Nicola Piovani, who also wrote the music for The Night of the Shooting Stars, as well as for films by Federico Fellini and for Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful. Piovani’s musical style is extremely difficult to classify or characterize: it combines, in a remarkably beautiful way, “rough” Sicilian folk music with quasi-classical music, sometimes of a floating, dreamlike character that slightly recalls Impressionist music.

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