Pompei: Below the Clouds – Audience Reaction

The audience rating was 6.08. Here are the comments received on the night:

• The film was torture for me, My brain is fried. Like listening to Tom Waits. I write this feeling very insecure and unintelligent. I am sorry but I am not worthy of scoring it.
• Absorbing, fascinating
• Fascinating! So much that you wouldn’t see in a documentary, with some ‘celeb’ presenting. The fire department control centre operatives are saints!
• A clever idea.
• Slow fascinating I didn’t want it to end.
• Amazing cinematography
• Beautiful pretty good
• Great visuals, Interesting to see the lives of regular people. Emotions and intimacy portrayed with camera closeup especially at the end or when showing the grain ship workers not wanting to go back to Odessa. Showing history and archaeology with respect.
• A haunting trip into the 4^th dimension
• Fascinating insight into Neapolitan life with the threat of Vesuvius rumbling on a regular basis.
• Mesmeric, disjointed, very grey needed some music
• A little slow but very interesting.
• Incredible black and white atmosphere photography depicting stories of people in Naples. Very well put across. Images of troubles from 100s of years ago to present current day trouble in Ukraine.
• Good cinematography and photography. Good fragment of Italian life. Particular appreciation of the snaps of the leader with the kids and archaeologist in the archive and her language.
• Some interesting images informative and educative.
• Atmospheric luminous etc etc. But I woud have preferred to have more narrative direction. An impressionistic feeling not to watch is you are feeling tired.
• What is the time please!
• V good photography but too long
• Great cinematography atmospheric but slow
• Nice photography but too long and repetitive I would have liked more street life.
• Not as sandy as Sirat
• Spooky being in monochrome helped the mood. Place where time has stood still.
• Visually interesting but vague and disjointed too long
• Hard to get my head round it
• Self indulgent, lacked cohesion, too long
• Soporific
• Tedious overall . Great in parts. Didn’t need a soundtrack as the film was accompanied by the sound of snoring from half the audience.
• Too bitty, too repetitive
• Oh dear not quite as thrilling as watching paint dry.
• Interesting