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L'immensit (film)

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'L'immensit' is a 2022 French-Italian drama film directed by Emanuele Crialese. It stars Luana Giuliani alongside Penlope Cruz and Vincenzo Amato.

Plot



Set in 1970s Rome, the fiction tracks the plight of a nuclear family, consisting of an unhappy married couple: Clara (a moody expatriate Spaniard) and Felice (a businessman cheating Clara with his secretary) and their children Adriana, Gino, and Diana. The eldest child, 12-year-old Adriana (assigned a female at birth) experiences gender dysphoria and identifies as a male and goes by the name of Andrea (a primarily masculine name in Italian). Andrea develops a crush for Sara, a girl who accepts Andrea's gender identity. Upon a shared sense of being outsiders, Andrea and Clara bond closer.

Cast



Production



The screenplay was written by Crialese, Francesca Manieri and Vittorio Moroni. An Italian-French co-production, 'L'immensit' was produced by Wildside, Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia, Chapter 2, Path, and France 3 Cinema.

Release



The film made its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2022. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it will be theatrically released in Italy on 15 September 2022.

Reception



Leslie Felperin of 'The Hollywood Reporter' summed up the film as "a vibrant, if over-crammed, family affair".

Guy Lodge of 'Variety' wrote that the film "is too palpably pained and heartfelt to be called slight, but it's sensitive and peculiar in ways that feel fragile".

Robbie Collin of 'The Telegraph' rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, deeming the "surprisingly autobiographical" picture to be "a child's-eye-view portrait of domestic sadness and the craving for escape from it".

Wendy Ide of 'ScreenDaily' highlighted Cruz's performance as "a cross between Sophia Loren and a solar flare".

Stephanie Bunbury of 'Deadline Hollywood' considered that deep down, the film "is fundamentally quite bleak, but it wears a delightfully cheerful face".

See also



* List of French films of 2022

References



Category:2020s Italian-language films

Category:Italian drama films

Category:French drama films

Category:Films set in Rome

Category:Films set in the 1970s

Category:Italian LGBT-related films

Category:French LGBT-related films

Category:Films about trans men

Category:2022 LGBT-related films

Category:2020s French films

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