The award goes to an original film that marries boldness, style, meaning, precision and surprise.

CPH:DOX jury (Charlie Lyne, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Boris Mitic)

Beautiful Things is a spectacularly shot documentary with a fugue structure.

Glen Kenny (NY Times)

His particular talent on display here is a kind of synesthesia, making music into images rather than using music to enhance images.

Stephanie Zacherek (Time Magazine)

A galvanizing soundtrack. Like any good symphonist, Ferrero knows the power of silence;
the soundtrack makes room for dead spots that suggest a world scraped clean of all the clutter.

David Bordwell (Critic, Professor Emeritus of Film Studies)

The beauty of impermanence. An exciting and revealing experience.

La Domenica – Il Sole 24 Ore

Beautiful Things is a film-symphony, a palimpsest both of the 9th century and the contemporary world in a globalising observation.

Bruno Roberti – Il Manifesto

I have remained rather impressed. Astonishing job.

Marco Müller

Finally the Italian nonfiction cinema is free from the dross of the cinema of the real. Stylistically inventive and surprising.

Adriano Aprà

A visionary work that during the last Venice Film Festival left the lagoon with wide open eyes and closed mouth.

Fabrique du cinéma

The editing of the film is impressive, as the sequences overlap at some points,
mirroring the way that music is often brought in early to transition scenes in movies.

Kaleem Aftab (The independent, Cineuropa)

I watched Beautiful Things right away and VERY much liked it.
The combination of sophisticated music and fantastic cinematography was wonderful. I truly enjoyed it.

Stefan Sagmeister (The Happy Film, Sagmeister&Walsh)

One of the best debuts of the last years.

Nonsolocinema

This work in unparalleled. It’s a great surprise. Stunning pictures.

Marco Tullio Giordana

A film of a great beauty, a great audio-visual sensibility.

Le Devoir (Canada)

A stunning visual symphony on the objects and on the process of dis-humanization of the man of grandiose visionary power.
One of the best movie of the 74th Mostra del Cinema. A miracle maybe.

Quinlan

Beautiful Things by Giorgio Ferrero really marvels at your insight. An audiovisual and punk song,
a sonata for multiple perceptions, from unexpected musical trends. To audio-watch abandoned to evasion.

Uzak

In his enchanting film, through a breathtaking sound design work,
Ferrero accompanies us along the course of a lifetime, more lives, so many lives, whose steps unite us.

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