At the start of the Italian film director Edoardo Winspeare's ''Quiet Bliss,'' a world-weary woman moves her family to live in an olive grove. Italy's enduring recession has brought the family to its knees and, forced to close their textile factory, they've come to work the land.

Here — amid the cream of stone, the green of olive, the blue of sea — the women discover the ancient grace of agricultural Salento, long the humblest region within Puglia, the rough-hewn, rocky area in the country's south. If the premise seems pat, the film is exquisite: visually arresting, emotionally raw. Minutes into meeting its director, I understand why.

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