Premiering earlier this yr on the 2022 Venice Film Festival was Emanuele Crialese‘s celebrated “L’Immensità,” a household drama starring Penélope Cruz. The movie is in regards to the story of affection between Clara (Cruz) and her youngsters, set in Rome within the ’70s.
The movie co-stars Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni, Maria Chiara Goretti, and was properly obtained out of Venice (our evaluate).
“L’Immensità is the film that I’ve always been trying to make: it’s always been ‘my next film,’” Crialese stated in an announcement on the time of the household. “But every time, it made way for another story as if I never felt ready, mature, and confident enough. It’s a film about memory that needed a greater distance, a different consciousness. Like all my works, it is at the bottom primarily a film on the family: on the innocence of the children and on their relationship with a mother that could come to life only in the artistic and human encounter with Penélope Cruz, with her sensitivity and her extraordinary ability to interact with three very young people who had never acted before. Luana, Patrizio, and Maria Chiara have remained children and, as such, always intensely and immensely real.”
Here’s the official synopsis:
Rome, Nineteen Seventies: a world suspended between neighborhoods below building and people nonetheless in black and white, and social achievements and household fashions that are actually outdated. Clara and Felice have simply moved into a brand new residence. Their marriage is over: they not love one another however can’t break up. Only their youngsters, on whom Clara pours all her want for freedom, maintain them collectively. Adriana, her eldest, has simply turned 12 and is probably the most attentive witness to Clara’s moods and the rising tensions between her mother and father. Adriana rejects her title and id and desires to persuade everybody that she is a boy. Her obstinacy brings the already fragile household steadiness to breaking level. While the kids are ready for an indication that may information them — a voice from above or a track on the TV perhaps — every thing adjustments each round and inside them.
No phrase on a U.S. launch date but, however Pathe has revealed a brand new trailer, which you’ll see under, and the movie comes out in French theaters on January 11.