Happy as Lazzaro
Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Alice Rohrwacher’s latest is an exquisitely rendered tale of pastoral life accentuated with magical realist dashes of brilliance. Playing the title character, newcomer Adriano Tardiolo is the picture of innocence as a young peasant whose pure intentions clash with the wickedness of the world. When his fellow laborers uncover a secret that upends their lives, Lazzaro’s journey becomes one of spiritual proportions. Happy as Lazzaro operates through its own mythology, but still illuminates the human condition in its splendor and decay.
Adriano Tardiolo in Happy as Lazzaro. Image courtesy of Netflix.
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