Un amour impossible
Empathy-arousing French adaptation of Christine Angot’s bestseller in which Rachel can’t seem to escape her doomed love affair.
134'
France
IFFR 2019
The village of Inviolata (Italian for 'unsullied') lives up to its name in successful Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s third film. The small community of tobacco farmers lives as it has for centuries. However, the marquis’ car - who rules the plantation with an iron fist - and her son Tancredi’s mobile phone reveal that we are closer to the present than we might think.
In turn, the
exploited villagers abuse the endless patience of young Lazzaro, who is innocence
personified. From the moment he and Tancredi become friends, everything goes
wrong. Following a dramatic incident, the villagers are dragged into the modern age. Lazzaro felice (a screenplay winner in Cannes) tells a wondrous tale in which fable
and social realism unite, as if by magic.
Winner IFFR Youth Jury Award, IFFR 2019.
IFFR 2019
- 130'
- Italy
- 2018
- Director
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Countries of production
- Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 130'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Happy as Lazzaro
- Language
- Italian
- Producers
- Carlo Cresto-Dina, Tiziana Soudani, Gregory Gajos, Michael Weber
- Production Companies
- Tempesta SRL, Amka Films Productions, Ad Vitam Production, Pola Pandora Film
- Sales
- The Match Factory GmbH
- Screenplay
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Cinematography
- Héléne Louvart
- Editor
- Nelly Quettier
- Production Design
- Emita Frigato
- Sound Design
- Christophe Giovannoni
- Music
- Piero Crucitti
- Cast
- Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Luca Chikovani, Alba Rohrwacher, Sergi López, Natalino Balasso, Tommaso Ragno
- Local Distributor
- Cinemien
- Director
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Countries of production
- Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 130'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Happy as Lazzaro
- Language
- Italian
- Producers
- Carlo Cresto-Dina, Tiziana Soudani, Gregory Gajos, Michael Weber
- Production Companies
- Tempesta SRL, Amka Films Productions, Ad Vitam Production, Pola Pandora Film
- Sales
- The Match Factory GmbH
- Screenplay
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Cinematography
- Héléne Louvart
- Editor
- Nelly Quettier
- Production Design
- Emita Frigato
- Sound Design
- Christophe Giovannoni
- Music
- Piero Crucitti
- Cast
- Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Luca Chikovani, Alba Rohrwacher, Sergi López, Natalino Balasso, Tommaso Ragno
- Local Distributor
- Cinemien
Programme IFFR 2019
Limelight
Avant-premieres of some of the cinematic highlights of the year: international award-winners and festival favourites which will be released in Dutch cinemas after IFFR.
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Adaptation of war reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski’s most famous book mixes hyper-realistic animation, documentary, hallucinatory impressions and literary soul searching.
86'
Poland
IFFR 2019
Asako I & II
In this gender-flipped Vertigo set in Japan, Asako’s encounter with her ex-lover’s lookalike sees her confronting the messiness of love.
119'
Japan
IFFR 2019