Some love this film, but ... not I

There are movies that are "not for everyone" and then there's "Le Quattro Volte" (loosely: the four seasons, or the four turns?), which is beloved by some and for others - me and M - left us totally cold and bewildered. It's one of those movies that on the surface sounds so improbable that you think it has to be amazing or it would never have been made, let alone distributed: a movie without any dialogue that follows a season in the life of a small Italian mountain village, particularly an elderly goat shepherd, as a way to look at the interconnection of all life: people, animals, vegetables, minerals, water, earth, fire, and air. Okay, let's give it a look! Great, except: I don't need every movie to be 13 Assassins, but a little plot and character development goes a long way. We watch the old shepherd coughing and spewing up flem, brushing a gnat from his face, fixing and drinking some weird health potion. From a fixed camera, like a spycam almost, we watch some interactions in the village square (a parade passes by, a dog barks, a truck pulls up), we see the villagers saw down a tree, cut up the tree, build some weird structure in which the wood is turned into charcoal - used for heating (and for medicinal purposes?). A little goes a long way. Most interesting sequences involve: the goats, particularly the birth of one, and its first days, and how it gets separated from the herd and, presumably, dies at base of tree that later fuels the hearths of the villagers. It all connects - but it left me pretty cold and uninterested.