From 31 March 2019

Happy as Lazzaro Lazzaro felice

Alice Rohrwacher / Italy / 2018 / 125 min / Italian

Kind-hearted peasant Lazzaro meets Tancredi, a young aristocrat plagued with the curse of his own imagination. Life in their remote farming village Inviolata is shaped by the notorious marquess Alfonsina de Luna, the so-called “Queen of Cigarettes”. And when Tancredi begs Lazzaro to help him stage his own kidnapping, an unlikely friendship develops between the young men. Winner for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival.

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