"The cave is majestically captured by state-of-the-art digital camera in its visually and aurally pristine condition, its claustrophobic, running-out-of-oxygen setting is constantly countervailed by a paralleled subplot about an aging shepherd, whose cattle grazes nearby the site, the close-ups on his wizened and soon moribund visage are the closest ones of Frammartino's subjective projection. Yet, what is the correlation between the spelunking and the shepherd's bucket-kicking process? THE HOLE is coyly noncommittal."
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