Happiness: film, Micaela Ramazzotti, plot, cast, toxic family

TOlla Venice Film Festival 80 there is also Micaela Ramazzottiand this time not only as an actress, but also as a director. Happiness in fact it is his first work, and it was selected in Extra Horizons.

The actress of Crazy joy And The first beautiful Thing she throws herself into the enterprise of being a director. «It was a film that I dreamed of at night», she reveals, and who tells of a sick and pathological relationship between a family and two children blinded by love for their parents. But Desirè he will realize their malice and manipulative skills. She will be able to save her brother Claudius from the abyss?

Happiness: the plot

Desirè (Micaela Ramazzotti) is a young woman from the Roman suburbs who works as a hairdresser in the world of cinema. Her life is one chaos: she can’t find a balance with herself, with her partner Bruno (Sergio Rubini), a university professor completely different from her, and especially with parents, played by Max Tortora and Anna Galiena. Two parents who look more like monsters than human beings. The last member of the family is the brother Claudius (Matthew Olivetti) a trapped boy within the walls of mom and dad’s house, unable to react to their impositions.

Claudio begins to suffer from depressionOf bipolar disorder and mood swings. Desirè is the only one who realizes the seriousness of the situation, unlike the parents who continue to denigrate the second child. His sister then decides to admit him to a mental health center, despite the family’s disapproval. And the harassment also falls on Desirè.

The first time by Micaela Ramazzotti

The character of Desirè is perfectly in the strings of Micaela Ramazzotti. In fact, in the filmography of the actress launched by Paolo Virzì, characters similar to Desirè. she is pure, without brakes, truthful, bewildered, fragile and unhappy, but brings with it a great love. On the final will take the right path for a moment: between one jolt and another, a slap in the face and a punch in the stomach, he will understand who to donate his Heart.

Although her parents never gave her affection (she ran away from home at 18), Desirè will still be able to discover love, thanks to her courage. “The protagonist is vexed, he has the anguish of living: in a sense I put into her all the women I’ve played so far – comments an enthusiast Micaela Ramazzotti – I like to flirt with fragile characters». Desirè will have the strength to take a step to save his brother, at the cost of sacrificing his own life. There he savors, for a moment, happiness.

The dysfunctional family of Happiness

Micaela he built authentic characters. «I dreamed about this movie at night – he reveals – in my fantasies I imagined this family, the Mazzonis from Fiumicino, with two fragile children. I wanted to tell the emancipation of these kids born and raised in a toxic context And dysfunctional».

And to reduce them to that state is one family that clips its wings«which neglects them, oppresses them, weakens them, distances them from freedom, as if it were a relationship between victims and perpetrators – underlines the new director – I would like Happiness (in theaters from 21 September) would raise its antennae to the viewer: human carelessness is always very close to us, and we must rebel against it».

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