A very quiet biographical film. The pace of the movie is very slow, and the story is presented to me slowly. There is no passionate surge, no trough of sadness, is calm. Everything passes quietly, like history, like a river flowing. A very quiet biographical film. The pace of the movie is very slow, and the story is presented to me slowly. There is no passionate surge, no trough of sadness, is calm. Everything passes quietly, like history, like a river flowing. At the end, Serafina pushed open the gate and returned to the trees on the hillside. She sat under the tree, and the spring was spring, and the gods were asleep, and the breeze was blowing through the trees.