Ezra Pound: The Last Cantos (2015)

North of Verona, on the Northern Italian tip, situated in the South Tyrol province lies a lost in time 13th Century heritage castle, named Brunnenberg. A fortressed building of eye flickering stature and strangely penetrating, stone brick beauty, set against a backdrop of cascading greeny mountains and panoramic landscape has a dream like quality only fitting to the stories and life work of it's owner, nonagenarian Mary de Rachewiltz. Daughter of legendary poet, Ezra Pound, a figure whom transcends literary appreciation, whom boldly pioneered new modernist values in his poetic language, and whose writing it has been said will last as long as literature itself, de Rachewiltz has created Brunnenberg Castle into a fitting ode to her father. Now in its 40th anniversary year, Brunnenberg Castle still hums to it's own harmonious song, like a flickering candle burning bright in a disillusioned world, a cultural heart where Pound took refuge to inspire and write, in 1958, the last 6 of his most famous 116 Cantos. His life work lives on gleefully through de Rachewiltz: a bluebird with soul, magnanimity and spirit we must learn from. Her gift to us was to allow us into her special sphere, in return we present The Last Cantos - a film ode to her.