Lagunaria

In Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities", the Venetian Marco Polo describes imaginary cities for Kubla Khan. The emperor objects that Polo never speaks of his native Venice. Polo answers that everything he has said has been about Venice. Something of Calvino's magic is captured in this beautiful unusual film. It's "about" the most beautiful city in the world, but about every other city too. This is the Venice that Polo carried in his mind. The cinematography, the graphics, the sound design, the historical perspective all work together, and what emerges is even greater than the sum of those remarkable parts.