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L'immensità (transl. The Immensity) is a 2022 drama film directed by Emanuele Crialese, who co-wrote the screenplay with Francesca Manieri and Vittorio Moroni. It stars Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani and Vincenzo Amato. An international co-production between Italy and France, the film follows a dysfunctional family in Italy in the 1970s.
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| Directed by | Emanuele Crialese |
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| Story by | Emanuele Crialese |
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| Cinematography | Gergely Pohárnok |
| Edited by | Clelio Benevento |
| Music by | Rauelsson |
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Running time | 99 minutes[1] |
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| Language | Italian |
| Box office | $3 million[2] |
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In 1970s Rome, Clara is a nonconformist Spanish expatriate trapped in a loveless marriage to Felice, an unfaithful and abusive businessman, with whom she has three children: Adriana, Gino and Diana. Their eldest child, 12-year-old Adriana, experiences gender dysphoria. Adriana rejects girlhood and instead identifies as a boy, wearing boys' clothes and adopting the masculine name Andrea.[a] One day, Andrea befriends Sara, a Romani girl who knows him as a boy. Upon a shared sense of being outsiders, Andrea and Clara grow closer.
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- Penélope Cruz as Clara Borghetti [4]
- Luana Giuliani as Adriana "Adri" / Andrea Borghetti[5]
- Vincenzo Amato as Felice Borghetti [4]
- Patrizio Francioni as Gino Borghetti[4]
- Maria Chiara Goretti as Diana Borghetti [4]
- Penelope Nieto Conti as Sara[4]
- Alvia Reale as the grandmother[4]
- India Santella as María[6]
- Mariangela Granelli as the doctor[7]
- Valentina Cenni as Giuseppina[7]
- Clara Ponsot as Camilla
The screenplay was written by Crialese, Francesca Manieri and Vittorio Moroni.[8] An Italian-French co-production,[9] L'immensità was produced by Wildside, Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia, Chapter 2, Pathé, and France 3 Cinéma.[6]
The film had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2022. It was released theatrically in Italy on 15 September 2022 by Warner Bros. Pictures and in France on 11 January 2023 by Pathé Films.[7][10][11]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, L'Immensità holds an approval rating of 83% based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "L'immensità can be excessively immense at times but with an always superlative Penélope Cruz at its core, this vibrant coming-of-age story with undeniable heart is a memorable experience."[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[13]
Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter summed the film up as "a vibrant, if over-crammed, family affair."[4] For Variety, Guy Lodge writes that the film "is too palpably pained and heartfelt to be called slight, but it's sensitive and peculiar in ways that feel fragile".[6]
Robbie Collin, writing for The Daily Telegraph, rated the film four out of five stars, deeming the "surprisingly autobiographical" picture to be "a child's-eye-view portrait of domestic sadness and the craving for escape from it".[14] Wendy Ide of Screen Daily highlighted Cruz's performance as "a cross between Sophia Loren and a solar flare".[15] Stephanie Bunbury of Deadline Hollywood considered that deep down, the film "is fundamentally quite bleak, but it wears a delightfully cheerful face".[5]
Accolades
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2023 | 31st Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Actress in an International Production | Penélope Cruz | Nominated | [16] |
| 68th David di Donatello Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Emanuele Crialese, Francesca Manieri, Vittorio Moroni | Nominated | [17] | |
| Best Actress | Penélope Cruz | Nominated | |||
| Best Hairstyling | Daniela Tartari | Nominated |
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- "Andrew" in the English subtitles[3]
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