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The next month at a local osteria, I sat sipping scarlet Brunello by candlelight; Mark looked at his menu, not me.

The night I went in 2023, the theme was “Courage,” which one attendee had spelled out in candlelight on the sand.

One week after an Altadena couple — married for more than 30 years and beloved in their neighborhood — was found slain in their home, friends and family held a candlelight vigil in their honor Friday.

Many scenes play out in candlelight and leaping shadows, with Marius Panduru’s camera crawling close to seamed faces and veined forearms.

With rotating camera angles, disappearing figures and scenes shot in candlelight, Pietro says he wanted to walk the “line of naturalism, but with something strange going on.”