Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
7.5
A witty Italian comedy
Movie
France, Germany
Italian
Drama, Fantasy
2018
ALICE ROHRWACHER, FEMALE DIRECTOR
Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher
128 min
What it's about
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
The take
Set in 1970s Italian countryside, this is a quirky movie that’s full of plot twists.
Lazzaro is a dedicated worker at a tobacco estate. His village has been indebted to a marquise and like everyone else, he works without a wage and in arduous conditions.
Lazzaro strikes a friendship with the son of the marquise, who, in an act of rebellion against his mother, decides to fake his own kidnapping. The two form an unlikely friendship in a story that mixes magical realism with social commentary.
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