Friday, 21 October 2022: Happy As Lazarro
Friday, 21 October 2022, 20:00
Venue: (see Locations and Tickets for further details)
Programme category: Forest Row Film Society
Director: Alice Rohrwacher, Italy / Switzerland / France / Germany 2019, 128 mins, 12A
“Happy As Lazzaro itself is a weightless enigma, an unfathomable promise of happiness, gently tugging you upwards, like a balloon on the end of a string” The Guardian
Lazzaro, a quietly good natured peasant, meets Tancredi, a young nobleman with a wildly overactive imagination. They live in an isolated Italian village where the villagers are held in state of feudalism and bondage by the Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna. Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him stage his own fake kidnapping which leads Lazzaro on a dark, magical and time-shifting journey away from the village for the first time.
“In the wide, green eyes of actor Adriano Tardialo, Rochwacher finds a gaze that sheds all cynicism, a guileless anchor for her devastating exploration of the false promise of progress and the elusive possibility of collective happiness.” Sight and Sound
