WHO’S IN IT?
Adriano Tardiolo (film debut), Tommaso Ragno (Land of Saints), Nicoletta Braschi (Life Is Beautiful), Alba Rohrwacher (The Wonders), Sergi López (Pan’s Labyrinth), Alessandro Genovesi (The Worst Week of My Life), Elisabetta Rocchetti (The Embalmer), Daria Pascal Attolini (45th Parallel), Carlo Massimino (film debut), Luca Chikovani (film debut), Agnese Graziani (The Wonders)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders), director, writer; Carlo Cresto-Dina (Corpo Celeste), Gregory Gajos (Carancho), Arthur Hallereau (Going South), Alexandra Henochsberg (The Apaches), Pierre-François Piet (Les Invincibles), Tiziana Soudani (The Interval) and Michael Weber (Dorfpunks), producers; Hélène Louvart (Low Life), cinematographer; Nelly Quettier (Holy Motors), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
Lazzaro (Tardiolo) is a young and good-hearted peasant who befriends Tancredi (Tardiolo), an imaginative nobleman and the son of landowner Alfonsina de Luna (Braschi) who Lazzaro dutifully works for. Together, they hatch a plan to fake Tancredi’s kidnapping and soon escape into the wilderness, which leads them both on an adventure that is as surprising as it is unpredictable…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
Happy as Lazzaro is a strange but charming Italian drama that comes to us from writer-director Alice Rohrwacher and executive producer Martin Scorsese.
