L'immensità

Film - 2022

5,5

165.6K

L'immensità it's a movie with Penélope Cruz, Vincenzo Amato, Filippo Pucillo, Aurora Quattrocchi, Alvia Reale Full cast. Directed by Emanuele Crialese. Original title L'immensità, runtime 97 minutes. Genre Drama.

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Diego Cineriflessi

To avoid any misunderstanding, the writer considers Respiro, Crialese's second film, to be one of the best Italian films of the new millennium for originality and creativity. Now, nine years after his last disappointing feature Terraferma, he returns with The Immensity and the result is nothing short of disastrous. We don't know whether it's due to too many irons in the fire, whether it's due to an excess of narrative urgency or a heavy hand of post-production editing, the only fixed point is that the film doesn't hold up. Certainly also the cumbersome presence of Penelope Cruz in the cast creates confusion in the development of the plot, so much so that the character of the protagonist's mother steals the scene with a secondary plot that is not too original, but which however has an exaggerated weight. The star's international appeal has done harm without much benefit. So she struggles to follow the path of the child in the body of a child. Her relationships with the rest of her daughter are barely sketched out and even the analysis of her internal discomfort struggles to emerge from her. The musical numbers to the tune of Seventies songs by Carrà or Patty Pravo leave the time they find and increase the bundling effect that the film leaves in the viewer. Having passed the competition in Venice, it is truly a disappointment. A work that proceeds by accumulation without finding development. It's a shame because it was a work with strong themes, courageous and useful for our country, but it really is a wasted opportunity. Read all

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Set in 1970s Rome, the fiction tracks the plight of a nuclear family, consisting of an unhappy married couple: Clara (a deeply dissatisfied expatriate Spaniard) and Felice (an abusive businessman cheating on Clara with his secretary) and their children Adriana, Gino, and Diana. Their eldest child, 12-year-old Adriana, experiences gender dysphoria; he rejects girlhood and instead goes by the name of Andrea (a primarily masculine name in Italian). Andrea develops a crush for Sara, a Roma girl who knows him as a boy. Upon a shared sense of being outsiders, Andrea and Clara grow closer.