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Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole

Underlands.

Last week I watched Il Buco, or The Hole, the latest film from the Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino. It's mesmerising. With very little in the way of dialogue, Frammartino tells the story of a 1960s spelunking expedition that explored one of the deepest cave systems in the world.

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Christian Donlan is a veteran former editor on staff at Eurogamer, and now a regular contributor. He is the author of The Unmapped Mind, published as The Inward Empire in the US.
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