L’immensità
Film details
| Film Title | L’immensità |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 97mins |
| Year | 2022 |
| Country | France, Italy |
| Director | Emanuele Crialese |
| Actors | Penélope Cruz, Vincenzo Amato, Luana Giuliani, Aurora Quattrocchi, Elena Arvigo, Laura Nardi, Filippo Pucillo, Francesco Casisa, Patrizio Francioni, Penélope Nieto Conti, India Santella, María Chiara Goretti, Rita de Donato, Alvia Reale, Giuseppe Pattavina |
| Language | Italian |
| AKA | L'immensità |
| Showings |
1970s Rome: a time of great social and cultural change, full of grit and glamour. The young Borghetti family has just moved into one of the many freshly-built apartment blocks in the city. The move is bittersweet. Despite the beautiful, sweeping views of Rome from their top floor apartment, the family is not as close as they once were.
Clara and Felice are no longer in love, but are unable to leave each other. Clara finds refuge from her loneliness in the shelter of her special relationships with her three children. The oldest, Adriana (11), an unknown child in this new neighbourhood, deliberately presents as a boy to the neighbourhood children, pushing the family’s bond towards a breaking point.
Clara has echoes of the glamorous but “unhinged” Aunt Patrizia from Paolo Sorrentino’s similar The Hand of God. Both women are cursed with beauty in a society that aggressively fetishises it.
★★★★
Music – peppy Italian pop, schmaltzy ballads – is inventively employed throughout, but the use of colour and costume is particularly evocative.
★★★★
