Question about CINEMA PARADISO (one of the finest films ever made)

[morosco]

Posted: 2/17/14 at 5:04pm

What are the ladies doing with the tomatoes in this shot? It's always puzzled me.

[blaxx]

Posted: 2/18/14 at 2:57pm

According to this link, they are drying tomato paste in the sun:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/10515669/On-the-Cinema-Paradiso-trail.html

[morosco]

Posted: 2/18/14 at 8:54pm

Ah. Now I get it. Thanks! "In Calabria, even today, conserva is dried under the hot Mediterranean sun. Spread on a big wooden slab and brought inside at night, tomato purée dries to a thick paste in three to four days."

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/18/14 at 8:54pm

Is this the new pizza thread?