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Happy as Lazzaro

Lazzaro felice

2018

Alice Rohrwacher

Adriano Tardiolo, Alba Rohrwacher, Agnese Graziani, Luca Chikovani ...

7.2

7,267

Drama A man travels through time for about 50 years, but this is not science fiction.

	Media	Author	Review
		Guy Lodge Variety	"[It] mixes time-bending fabulism with contemporary social critique to gradually exhilarating effect (...) A slow but bewitching burn that rewards viewers’ patience with humor and uncanny grace"
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Half a good movie (...) [It] tries — but never quite succeeds — to contrast timeless sainthood with the recent past and the present (...) Rohrwacher seems partially lost in the second part"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"A unique allegorical mystery (...) A fascinating look at rural life with a supernatural twist (...) [It] confirms Rohrwacher has much to say, and her own beguiling ways of saying it."
		Steve Pond The Wrap	"[It] is both transporting and maddening (...) If you can surrender to her peculiar vision, its beauty is undeniable; if not, impatience may set in long before the film winds down"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"What makes 'Happy as Lazzaro' a great movie, though — a film that acquires new depths of emotion and meaning each time you see it — is the piercing clarity of Alice Rohrwacher’s vision."
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"What starts out as an impressive mix of various classic-Italian-cinema strains turns into something much richer, rewarding and singular (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Barbara Scharres rogerebert.com	"The mix of socially relevant plot elements, religious symbolism, and cryptic fantasy is almost too much for one film to bear."
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"A genuine UFO of a film that seems to come from another time and place, and certainly another imagination (...) Artfully playing on spatial and temporal dislocation"
		Gwilym Mumford The Guardian	"[Lazzaro] is a figure as elusive as this beguiling, half-remembered dream of a film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Lawrence Garcia AV Club	"The resulting amalgam is as beguiling as it is, well, wondrous—all the more so for how unassuming and easygoing it feels"

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