Ballo a tre passi (2003)

Director Salvatore Mereu lifts the curtain on life in Sardinia with Ballo a tre passi (2003), a four-part omnibus that relates a tale for every season. Each story takes place in a rural Sardinian village, and against that lush backdrop characters display coming-of-age crushes, the eccentricities that accompany old age, and more. A lyrical, interlocked set of shorts, Mereu’s film drew comparisons to classics by Roberto Rosselini and Robert Altman. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Caroline Ducey helped to get the critics’ attention with a bit of screwing in the great outdoors.