Grand Bolero, The

[Plays Oct. 24 as part of the 28th Austin Film Festival; for information, log on to www.austinfilmfestival.com.] A complicated and obsessive relationship ensues in Gabriele Fabbro's captivating, tense, well-acted, unpredictable, 90-minute romantic thriller highlighted by stunning cinematography and soundtrack when a kindhearted Italian priest (Marcello Mariani) in a rundown church in Northern Italy asks his cranky, disturbed, middle-aged organ restorer (Lidia Vitale) to take on a mute, artistic, 20-year-old (Ludovica Mancini) as an assistant per the request of her brother (Filippo Prandi/Brandon Koen) in exchange for giving her organ lessons in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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