Showroom Classics: Happy as Lazzaro 12A
Showing as part of Showroom Classics
This film is F-Rated
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Showroom Cinema celebrates the May release of Alice
Rohrwacher’s La Chimera by returning her beloved modern masterpiece, Happy
as Lazzaro.
This is 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 terrible Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna, the queen of cigarettes. A loyal bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping. This strange and improbable alliance is a revelation for Lazzaro. A friendship so precious that it will travel in time and transport Lazzaro in search of Tancredi. His first time in the big city, Lazzaro is like a fragment of the past lost in the modern world.
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- Director
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Year
- 2018
- Duration
- 2 hours 2 minutes
- Language
- Italian with English subtitles
- Cast
- Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Chikovani
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