Director: | Emanuele Crialese |
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Story: | Emanuele Crialese |
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Cinematography: | Gergely Pohárnok |
Editing: | Clelio Benevento |
Music: | Rauelsson |
Runtime: | 99 minutes[1] |
Language: | Italian |
Gross: | $3 million[2] |
L'immensità is a 2022 drama film directed by Emanuele Crialese, who co-wrote the screenplay with Francesca Manieri and Vittorio Moroni. It stars Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani and Vincenzo Amato. An international co-production between Italy and France, the film follows a dysfunctional family in Italy in the 1970s.
In 1970s Rome, Clara is a nonconformist Spanish expatriate trapped in a loveless marriage to Felice, an unfaithful and abusive businessman, with whom she has three children: Adriana, Gino and Diana. Their eldest child, 12-year-old Adriana, experiences gender dysphoria. Adriana rejects girlhood and instead identifies as a boy, wearing boys' clothes and adopting the masculine name Andrea. One day, Andrea befriends Sara, a Romani girl who knows him as a boy. Upon a shared sense of being outsiders, Andrea and Clara grow closer.
The screenplay was written by Crialese, Francesca Manieri and Vittorio Moroni.[3] An Italian-French co-production,[4] L'immensità was produced by Wildside, Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia, Chapter 2, Pathé, and France 3 Cinéma.
The film had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2022. It was released theatrically in Italy on 15 September 2022 by Warner Bros. Pictures and in France on 11 January 2023 by Pathé Films.[5] [6]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, L'Immensità holds an approval rating of 83% based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "L'immensità can be excessively immense at times but with an always superlative Penélope Cruz at its core, this vibrant coming-of-age story with undeniable heart is a memorable experience."[7] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[8]
Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter summed the film up as "a vibrant, if over-crammed, family affair."[9] For Variety, Guy Lodge writes that the film "is too palpably pained and heartfelt to be called slight, but it's sensitive and peculiar in ways that feel fragile".[10]
Robbie Collin, writing for The Daily Telegraph, rated the film four out of five stars, deeming the "surprisingly autobiographical" picture to be "a child's-eye-view portrait of domestic sadness and the craving for escape from it".[11] Wendy Ide of Screen Daily highlighted Cruz's performance as "a cross between Sophia Loren and a solar flare".[12] Stephanie Bunbury of Deadline Hollywood considered that deep down, the film "is fundamentally quite bleak, but it wears a delightfully cheerful face".[13]
|-| rowspan = "4" | || 31st Actors and Actresses Union Awards || Best Actress in an International Production || Penélope Cruz || || [14] |-| rowspan = "3" | 68th David di Donatello Awards || Best Original Screenplay || Emanuele Crialese, Francesca Manieri, Vittorio Moroni || || rowspan = "3" | [15] |-| Best Actress || Penélope Cruz || |-| Best Hair || Daniela Tartari || |}