Finally Dawn

Name: Finally Dawn
Genre: Drama, History
Released: July 18, 2025
Duration: 140 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Alexia Murray, Anna Manuelli, Fabiola Morabito, Joe Keery

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Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: July 18, 2025

Starring: Alba Rohrwacher, Alexia Murray, Anna Manuelli, Fabiola Morabito, Joe Keery, Lily James, Paul Boche, Rachel Sennott, Rebecca Antonaci, Willem Dafoe

Summary: A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night during which she discovers herself.

Director: Saverio Costanzo

Genre(s): Drama, History

Runtime: 140 min

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Screen Rant Ben Gibbons

Jul 18, 2025

Finally Dawn brings together a wonderful cast, a compelling story, and stunning artistry to create something magical. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Sep 8, 2023

Not a terribly profound film, but delivered with real brio. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Sep 8, 2023

Set in Rome’s sprawling Cinecittà studios in their 1950s heyday, Finally Dawn is a rich, shape-shifting fairy tale, an odyssey of empowerment about a vulnerable girl navigating her way through a day and night of enchantments and dangers, using her weakness as a kind of magic shield. Read full review

Maureen Lee Lenker

Sep 9, 2023

Costanzo wants to tell a story set in the past, but he doesn't spend enough time fine-tuning the particulars that make period pieces feel vital rather than stagey. Additionally, at 140 minutes, the film is self-indulgent in length. Read full review

Collider Jasneet Singh

Jul 18, 2025

Finally Dawn can be commended as a homage to Italian cinema and its effort to cater to an international stage, but it stumbles on its ability to follow through on its promises, leaving us a mesmerizing world that ultimately rings hollow. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Sep 8, 2023

One can sense what Costanzo’s trying to do, but he’s made a fatal miscalculation: Mimosa is not leading lady material, and 140 minutes is far too long to spend pretending otherwise. Read full review

The Playlist Rafaela Sales Ross

Sep 8, 2023

The bitter aftertaste of dullness remains in its place, an unforgivable sin within the art form Constanzo seems so set on paying tribute to. Read full review

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