Happy as Lazzaro, 2018. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Starring Adriano Tardiolo, Alba Rohrwacher, Tommaso Ragno, Luca Chikovani, Natalino Balasso and Nicoletta Braschi. SYNOPSIS: An unlikely friendship that blossoms on an isolated farm fires the starting pistol on a bizarre, surreal journey. It’s not often that a movie completely reconfigures itself at the halfway point, but […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Happy as Lazzaro
Happy as Lazzaro, 2018. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Starring Adriano Tardiolo, Sergi Lopez and Alba Rohrwacher. SYNOPSIS: The tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the […]
