Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) (2018)

Drama, Fantasy

Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Writer: Alice Rohrwacher
Starring: Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Chikovani

This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the terrible Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna (Nicoletta Braschi), the queen of cigarettes. A loyal bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping. This strange and improbable alliance is a revelation for Lazzaro. A friendship so precious that it will travel in time and transport Lazzaro in search of Tancredi. His first time in the big city, Lazzaro is like a fragment of the past lost in the modern world.

Plot summary from IMDb: An unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.

Awards: N/A
Runtime: 128 min
PG-13