'The Devil's Soup' ('La Zuppa del Demonio'): Venice Review — hollywoodreporter.com

VENICE -- Italy’s industrial miracles of the twentieth century are explored in The Devil’s Soup (La Zuppa del Demonio), a documentary by director Davide Ferrario that combines an impressive range of archive footage, some of it shot by famous Italian directors such as Ermanno Olmi and Dino Risi, and snippets of literary texts from the time, from poets and writers such as Dino Buzzati, Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Pier Paolo Pasolini, often to thought-provoking effect. Though too Italy-centric to have much of a future as a theatrical item elsewhere, this out-of-competition Venice title should nonetheless appeal to documentary events, broadcasters and, given the names involved, perhaps a cinematheque or two.

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