‘The Creation of Meaning’ is a Breathtaking Agrarian Film with an Eternal Sensibility

Simone Rapisarda Casanova’s The Creation of Meaning is a film set in a strange, mystical borderland. It technically takes place right in the middle of a single country, surrounded by Central Italy’s Apennine Mountains, not far from Florence. Yet the lack of a contemporary international border is irrelevant. In the opening scene a teacher, framed by the …