L'Immensità

Name: L'Immensità
Genre: Drama
Released: May 12, 2023
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Alvia Reale, Carlo Gallo, India Santella, Luana Giuliani, María Chiara Goretti

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Music Box Films | Release Date: May 12, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Alvia Reale, Carlo Gallo, India Santella, Luana Giuliani, María Chiara Goretti, Mariangela Granelli, Patrizio Francioni, Penélope Cruz, Penélope Nieto Conti, Vincenzo Amato

Summary: Clara (Penélope Cruz) and her emotionally distant husband Felice (Vincenzo Amato) relocate to Rome to raise a family. Even though the paint is fresh, and the appliances are new, the crushing expectations around marriage, desire, and gender in the early 1970s remain as traditional as ever. Their children Andrew (Luana Giuliani), Gino, andClara (Penélope Cruz) and her emotionally distant husband Felice (Vincenzo Amato) relocate to Rome to raise a family. Even though the paint is fresh, and the appliances are new, the crushing expectations around marriage, desire, and gender in the early 1970s remain as traditional as ever. Their children Andrew (Luana Giuliani), Gino, and Diana are likewise poised at a precipice, on the verge of adolescence, with nothing but their imaginations to defuse family tensions. The eldest child, Andrew (nicknamed Adri by his parents), yearns for another life – an outsized, vibrantly-realized vision of a world where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Without an accepted vocabulary for talking about his transgender identity, Andrew tells adults that he’s an alien from another galaxy and makes a habit of running away to pursue a local Roma girl who accepts his boyhood at face value. As an outsider ostracized for her own eccentricities, Clara instinctively strives to protect her son despite not fully understanding him.… Expand

Director: Emanuele Crialese

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Lena Wilson

Jan 20, 2023

By showing the tangled relationship between a mother and her dysphoric child, L’Immensità writes a love letter to the lonely. Read full review

The Film Stage Jose Solís

Feb 1, 2023

To say director Emanuele Crialese’s camera falls in love with Cruz would be an understatement. She is lovingly shot and framed (even her Sophia Loren bob brings attention to her expressive eyes) and we don’t even need to hear her speak to know whoever’s gaze she’s under has completely fallen under her spell. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Aug 14, 2023

There is a vitality and a quiet defiance to this kind of filmmaking that is difficult to resist. Read full review

Pat Brown

May 15, 2023

By turns wry and tragic, but never glib or mawkish, this is a visually rich and evocative drama about navigating the often treacherous path to adulthood. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Jun 7, 2023

L’immensità lives up to its title: It’s a small but all-encompassing portrait of how life feels in a certain time and place — when the broken pieces of one’s true self are invisibly coming together, even when getting them to fit feels too overwhelming to contemplate. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

May 11, 2023

In dreams, he imagines himself and his mother as glamorous figures in a monochrome variety-show spectacle, poignant bouts of movie-magic that underscore both Andrew’s innocence and his sharpening intuition: Freedom, for the both of them, will mean upending reality itself. Read full review

David Jenkins

Aug 14, 2023

It feels as if Crialese wants to explore this subject matter without potentially alienating an audience who may disagree with the stance it takes, so everything political is soft edged, and Adri’s dilemma is nudged to the background in the film’s final act. Read full review

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penecober

Aug 11, 2023

wonderful film，always been a big fan of emmanuele crialese and penelope cruz，i cried when penelope cruz portrayed raffaella carra

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MichaelHudson

May 23, 2023

This has some great cinematic moments that make it worth seeing, while also having a somewhat muddled script that drags it down. But it isn’t the kind of film you’ll necessarily regret making time for.

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