Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for a 2022 foreign language film distributed in the U.S. by Chicago’s Music Box Films … and featuring Penélope Cruz … entitled “L’Immensitá.” In select theaters beginning May 19th, see local listings.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Clara (Penélope Cruz) and her husband Felice (Vincenzo Amato) relocate to Rome, while raising three children. Their oldest child, nicknamed Andri (Luana Giuliani), was born female but desires a male’s life, and since this is the early 1970s the only explanation he can come up with is that he’s an alien from outer space. As Felice grows most distant from the family, Clara turns inward, and allows an acute depression to affect her profoundly, and the family starts to crumble as a result.
”L’Immensitá” is in select theaters beginning May 19th, see local listings, including Chicago’s (click link) Music Box Theatre. Featuring Penélope Cruz, Vincenzo Amato,...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Clara (Penélope Cruz) and her husband Felice (Vincenzo Amato) relocate to Rome, while raising three children. Their oldest child, nicknamed Andri (Luana Giuliani), was born female but desires a male’s life, and since this is the early 1970s the only explanation he can come up with is that he’s an alien from outer space. As Felice grows most distant from the family, Clara turns inward, and allows an acute depression to affect her profoundly, and the family starts to crumble as a result.
”L’Immensitá” is in select theaters beginning May 19th, see local listings, including Chicago’s (click link) Music Box Theatre. Featuring Penélope Cruz, Vincenzo Amato,...
- 5/20/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Well-intentioned films about marginalized people face the pitfall of reducing characters’ lives to their experience of persecution. Black characters in Hollywood’s anti-racist parables tend to stand in for a monolithic Black experience, while gay characters have often been defined solely by their sexuality. Emanuele Crialese’s autobiographical L’Immensita, a drama about a transgender preteen, Adri (Luana Giuliani), in early-’70s Italy, skirts this trap by capturing the textures and tensions of a life that’s not defined solely by anti-trans oppression.
As the film depicts with a certain resigned whimsy, Adri not only copes with routine teenage angst, but is also caught within a web of intersecting inequities, including domestic abuse, sexual harassment, and class prejudice. By turns wry and tragic, but never glib or mawkish, this is a visually rich and evocative drama about navigating the often treacherous path to adulthood.
Giuliani’s character was born Adriana. He tells his adoring mother,...
As the film depicts with a certain resigned whimsy, Adri not only copes with routine teenage angst, but is also caught within a web of intersecting inequities, including domestic abuse, sexual harassment, and class prejudice. By turns wry and tragic, but never glib or mawkish, this is a visually rich and evocative drama about navigating the often treacherous path to adulthood.
Giuliani’s character was born Adriana. He tells his adoring mother,...
- 5/13/2023
- by Pat Brown
- Slant Magazine
"What miracle do you need?" "You and dad made me wrong." Music Box Films has revealed the official US trailer for the Italian film L'immensità, which originally premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival last fall. We also posted the French trailer for the film late last year after its premiere. Unfortunately it's not one of Cruz's better films, it's actually one of her worst, a messy domestic drama that is mostly uninteresting despite good intentions. L'immensità (which translates to The Immensity) is set in Rome in the 1970s - "a world suspended between neighborhoods under construction, TV shows still in B&w, social achievements and family models that are now outdated." The story follows a husband and wife, who are no longer together but still live together, focusing on their three young children as they grow up in 70s Italy. Penélope Cruz stars (speaking Italian) with Vincenzo Amato, Luana Giuliani,...
- 4/20/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
L’Immensità Review — L’Immensità (2022) Film Review from the 45th Annual Sundance Film Festival, a movie directed by Emanuele Crialese, starring Penélope Cruz, Vincenzo Amato, Luana Giuliani, Patrizio Francioni, María Chiara Goretti, Alvia Reale, Mariangela Granelli, Carlo Gallo, Rita De Donato, and Clara Ponsot. Italian director Emanuele Crialese draws on his own experiences to [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: L’IMMENSITÀ: Intimate Story Sheds Bright Light on Family Issues in the Seventies [Sundance 2023]...
Continue reading: Film Review: L’IMMENSITÀ: Intimate Story Sheds Bright Light on Family Issues in the Seventies [Sundance 2023]...
- 2/8/2023
- by David McDonald
- Film-Book
“L’Immensità,” the 1967 hit made famous by Don Backy and Johnny Dorelli, has the kind of lyrics that can make you cry just by reading them: “I am sure that in this great immensity/ someone thinks a little of me/ will not forget me./ Yes, I know it,/ all my life I won’t always be alone.”
It’s no wonder that the Italian filmmaker Emanuele Crialese (“Terraferma”) named his latest film after the song. “L’Immensità,” which Crialese co-wrote with Francesca Ranieri and Vittorio Moroni, is an aching and sumptuous ode to growing up and chafing against expectations. Making its North American premiere at Sundance after debuting in Venice, this is a film about adolescence and regression, defiance and surrender. By showing the tangled relationship between a mother and her dysphoric child, “L’Immensità” writes a love letter to the lonely.
The 13-year-old protagonist of “L’Immensità,” played by a stunning Luana Giuliani,...
It’s no wonder that the Italian filmmaker Emanuele Crialese (“Terraferma”) named his latest film after the song. “L’Immensità,” which Crialese co-wrote with Francesca Ranieri and Vittorio Moroni, is an aching and sumptuous ode to growing up and chafing against expectations. Making its North American premiere at Sundance after debuting in Venice, this is a film about adolescence and regression, defiance and surrender. By showing the tangled relationship between a mother and her dysphoric child, “L’Immensità” writes a love letter to the lonely.
The 13-year-old protagonist of “L’Immensità,” played by a stunning Luana Giuliani,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Lena Wilson
- The Wrap
L’immensità Trailer — Emanuele Crialese‘s L’immensità (2022) movie trailer has been released by Pathe. The L’immensità trailer stars Penélope Cruz, Vincenzo Amato, Luana Giuliani, Patrizio Francioni, and Maria Chiara Goretti. Crew Emanuele Crialese, Francesca Manieri, and Vittorio Moroni wrote the screenplay for L’immensità. Plot Synopsis L’immensità‘s plot synopsis: “Clara & Felice (Penélope Cruz & Vincenzo Amato) have just [...]
Continue reading: L’Immensita (2022) Movie Trailer: Penélope Cruz Struggles to Hold Her Family Together in a Loveless Marriage...
Continue reading: L’Immensita (2022) Movie Trailer: Penélope Cruz Struggles to Hold Her Family Together in a Loveless Marriage...
- 12/19/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"What miracle do you need?" Pathe in France has revealed a new official trailer for an Italian drama titled L'immensità, which originally premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival a few months ago. The film has no US date set yet, but will play in France in January after first opening in Italy in September. It's not one of Cruz's best films, it's one of her worst, a messy domestic drama that is mostly uninteresting. L'immensità (which translates to The Immensity) is set in Rome in the 70s - "a world suspended between neighborhoods under construction, TV shows still in B&w, social achievements and family models that are now outdated." The story follows a husband and wife, who are no longer together but still live together, focusing on their three young children as they grow up in this Italy of the 70s. Penélope Cruz stars (speaking Italian) with Vincenzo Amato,...
- 12/18/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Premiering earlier this year at the 2022 Venice Film Festival was Emanuele Crialese‘s celebrated “L’Immensità,” a family drama starring Penélope Cruz. The film is about the story of love between Clara (Cruz) and her children, set in Rome in the ’70s.
The film co-stars Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni, Maria Chiara Goretti, and was well received out of Venice (our review).
Continue reading ‘L’Immensità’ Trailer: Penélope Cruz Tries To Hold Her Family Together In Celebrated Venice Drama at The Playlist.
The film co-stars Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni, Maria Chiara Goretti, and was well received out of Venice (our review).
Continue reading ‘L’Immensità’ Trailer: Penélope Cruz Tries To Hold Her Family Together In Celebrated Venice Drama at The Playlist.
- 12/17/2022
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
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