Lor last year The immensitythe most personal and complicated film of Emanuele Crialese (New world), was presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Tonight is proposed on the first tv at 21.15 on Sky Cinema One (at 21.45 on Sky Cinema Drama) and streaming on Now.
The director tells his story history through the story of twelve year old Adrianaa girl who feels completely a male. Precisely in Venice Crialese confessed to the press: «Adriana it’s me». The immensity it’s a movie about one transitionon one slice of life, about a family living in the 1970s. In the cast stands out an impeccable Penélope Cruzin the role of Claramother of the protagonist.
The immensity: the plot
Rome, 70s. Clara (Penélope Cruz) is happy (Vincent Amato) are married and have three children: Gino, Diana and the twelve year old Adriana (Luana Giuliani), who prefers to be called Adri because it feels deep inside a male. He poses as a boy, dresses as a boy, and wears a boy’s cut. His family just moved into a new apartment, but the mother and father no longer love each other. It is also clear to the children.
Crialese tells a very personal story: Adriana wants to show everyone what hers really is identity. While her father reacts violently, her mother, along with a friend to whom Adri will give her first kiss, are the only ones to support her. Both Clara and Adri are going through a sensitive period in their lives: the twelve-year-old is increasingly aware of her own essence; the mother must face the depression and the end of the marriage with the cheating husband.
Penélope Cruz in “The Immensity”. (Photo Angelo Turetta)
Penélope Cruz and Raffaella Carrà
Penélope Cruz plays another role of mother. Clara she is a woman who pretends to be happy in front of her children, who doesn’t have the strength to disengage from the family, despite being aware that her marriage is over. Sink into a deep depression It is inevitable.
Her way of escaping from reality is to rely on the little girl in her, to build funny curtains with her children and cling to cheerfulness and vitality of a timeless icon like Raffaella Carrà. The queen of TV of those years. Clara, with lots of blonde wig, dance to the tune of Noise and of Prisencolinensinainciusol of Celentano together with Adriana. These carefree “trips” help the woman to shrug off, but only temporarily, the unhappiness that comes with it.
The immensityEmanuele Crialese’s most personal film
The director absolutely wanted to tell his own storybut had to metabolize before plucking up the courage to get naked. “I had to tell about my life, my family and my childhood – he declared Emanuel Crialese – but I had to find the right key for this biographical story to become universal». The immensity she faces with extreme delicacy, irony and emotion the awareness of her own identity as a girl who simply desires freedom.
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