L'Immensita (12A)

Italian with English subtitles.

The story of love between Clara and her children, set in Rome in the ‘70s.

Rome, 1970s: a world which straddles new neighborhoods being created, TV variety shows still in black & white, societal advances and family models that now seem outdated.

Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment. Their marriage has reached a point of no return: they no longer love each other, but they can't seem to leave each other either. Their children are the only thing that keeps them together, the same children that are the syphon for all of Clara's dreams of freedom. Adriana, the eldest, has just turned twelve; Clara's mood swings and the growing tensions between her parents play out before her watchful gaze.

Adriana is in a state of refusal of her name and her identity, and her dogged pursuit of trying to convince everyone that she is a boy brings the already fragile stability of her family to breaking point.

As the children search around them for guidance, be it a voice from above or a song on the TV, everything changes, both inside and outside of themselves.

Starring Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato

'Music – peppy Italian pop, schmaltzy ballads – is inventively employed throughout, but the use of colour and costume is particularly evocative' ★★★★ The Observer

'Clara has echoes of the glamorous but “unhinged” Aunt Patrizia from Paolo Sorrentino’s similar The Hand of God. Both women are cursed with beauty in a society that aggressively fetishises it' ★★★★ The Times

'Its scenes have the tingling specificity of formative memory, where peculiar, attention-snagging details somehow serve as lightning rods for the emotions crackling overhead' ★★★★ Daily Telegraph

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