99 mins |
Rated
M (Sex scenes, offensive language & nudity)
Directed by Daniele Luchetti
Starring Andre Tricoteux, Alba Rohrwacher, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Silvio Orlando, Francesca de Sapio, Laura Morante
( Info re Opening Night on Thursday, please join us for complimentary drinks and nibbles from 6.30 at the Lumiere, the film will start approximately 7.10pm)
The Opening Night film of the 2022 Cinema Italiano Festival is LACCI by Daniele Luchetti; a superb, stylish drama that had the honour of opening The Venice Film Festival and Australian Italian Film Festival and now our very own in Aotearoa....
Distinguished by an outstanding cast in top form, the stylish and involving new drama from award-winning writer/director Daniele Luchetti (La Nostra Vita, My Brother is an Only Child) charts the lives of a middle-class Italian family across three decades.
Naples, early 1980s. The once-happy union between Aldo (Luigi Lo Cascio) and his wife Vanda (a superb Alba Rohrwacher) is ruptured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, that he has been unfaithful. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple’s two school-age kids.
30 years later, Aldo (Silvio Orlando) and Vanda (Laura Morante) are still together, but their relationships with each other and grownup children Anna (Giovanni Mezzogiorno) and Sandro (Adriano Giannini) continue to be defined by what happened all those years ago.
The first Italian film in over a decade to open the Venice Film Festival, Luchetti’s intricate and affecting film effortlessly shifts back and forth through the years, wresting new perspectives on age-old relationship conflicts. It’s emotional, indelible cinema.
Exceptional. A vivid marriage story with Ferrante flavour.
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( Info re Opening Night on Thursday, please join us for complimentary drinks and nibbles from 6.30 at the Lumiere, the film will start approximately 7.10pm)
The Opening Night film of the 2022 Cinema Italiano Festival is LACCI by Daniele Luchetti; a superb, stylish drama that had the honour of opening The Venice Film Festival and Australian Italian Film Festival and now our very own in Aotearoa....
Distinguished by an outstanding cast in top form, the stylish and involving new drama from award-winning writer/director Daniele Luchetti (La Nostra Vita, My Brother is an Only Child) charts the lives of a middle-class Italian family across three decades.
Naples, early 1980s. The once-happy union between Aldo (Luigi Lo Cascio) and his wife Vanda (a superb Alba Rohrwacher) is ruptured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, that he has been unfaithful. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple’s two school-age kids.
30 years later, Aldo (Silvio Orlando) and Vanda (Laura Morante) are still together, but their relationships with each other and grownup children Anna (Giovanni Mezzogiorno) and Sandro (Adriano Giannini) continue to be defined by what happened all those years ago.
The first Italian film in over a decade to open the Venice Film Festival, Luchetti’s intricate and affecting film effortlessly shifts back and forth through the years, wresting new perspectives on age-old relationship conflicts. It’s emotional, indelible cinema.
Exceptional. A vivid marriage story with Ferrante flavour.