Synopsis
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
2018 ‘Lazzaro felice’ Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
Adriano Tardiolo Agnese Graziani Luca Chikovani Alba Rohrwacher Sergi López Tommaso Ragno Natalino Balasso Nicoletta Braschi Carlo Massimino Daria Pascal Attolini Maddalena Baiocco Giulia Caccavello Annunziata Capretto Alessandro Genovesi Davide Denci Edoardo Montalto Leonardo Nigro Gala Othero Winter Iris Pulvano Ettore Scarpa Pasqualina Scuncia Carlo Tarmati Pascal Tréguy
Martin Scorsese Michael Weber Tiziana Soudani Carlo Cresto-Dina Gregory Gajos Pierre-François Piet Cécile Tollu-Polonowski
François Musy Christophe Giovannoni Marcos Molina Maxence Ciekawy Xavier Lavorel Gianfranco Marongiu
Heureux comme Lazzaro, 행복한 라짜로, Щастливият Лазаро, Lykkelige Lazzaro
lazzaro is described as a man with an “honest face”. his eyes are coloured by an innocence and naivite that’s rare because we can’t afford to be innocent. so when the first tear falls, your cheeks feel damp too – not even lazzaro can get by on kindness alone. under capitalism, selflessness is perceived as a threat. there is no place for honest faces here.
we got julia ducournau and coralline fargeat resurrecting the new french extremity movement, and now alice rohrwacher breathing new life into italian neorealism! while the sub-genre’s post-war predecessors such as The Bicycle Thieves and Umberto D. kept their tones somber and grounded, Happy as Lazzaro is more playful, incorporating magical elements without sacrificing the naturalism of the performances.
i admit that italian neorealism has never been my cup o’espresso, but it’s hard to resist the warmth radiating from both hélène louvart’s sepia-toned super-16 cinematography and the awww-inducingly sweet Lazzaro — even as the fable warps from humble pastoral to urban fantasy.
also, it’s now streaming on netflix!! just letting y’all know since they sure aren’t advertising it!!!!!!!
Finally gave Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro a proper watch on Netflix. (Wish I was able to see on the big screen because Hélène Louvart’s Super 16 is lush) And it’s one of my faves of the year. What a fantastic follow-up to The Wonders.
Arriflex 416, Zeiss Ultra Prime Lenses
Laboratory - Augustus Color, Roma, Italy
Super 16 mm (Kodak Vision3 250D 7207, Vision3 500T 7219)
Full review on Lazzaro Felice here.
Alice Rohrwacher is the real deal. This movie has it all and more. A profoundly moving, deeply inhabited film that soars as a portrayal of inequality and exploitation, friendship and selflessness. Lazzaro, as a character, is so impressively, unrelentling unselfish that he is essentially unfit for the world he lives in. Rohrwacher’s use of magical realism allows her to extend the “metaphor” that is Lazzaro beyond just the time he is born into, broadening - ever so lightly - the scope of this story.
I was particularly struck by the distinct change in visual style and aesthetic between the first and second hour. It helps deepen the story, serving as a showcase for Rohrwacher’s…
What is the role of a saint in a world that has turned its back on God in favor of capitalism?
Surreal and funny and aching, the movie makes a potent political point while conjuring a modern day myth out of faces, objects and gestures.
Currently streaming on Netflix. Go and fall under this movie’s spell.
Added to: 2018 Ranked, Leo's Top 200+ Favorites, Masterpieces of the 21st Century and 52 Films by Women - 2018
Dreams to survive
Dreams make a wish come true, ooh
Keep your dreams alive
Dream, dream on
Your dream will come alive
I’ve always considered the fable or parable to be one of the most precise and satisfactory forms of storytelling ever conceived. It aches close to being a fairytale but uses the essence of both forms to create something that’s wholly its own. Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice is such an ingenious little fable.
Starting out somewhere in the '90s, we find ourselves in a small village, hidden from the rest of the world. It’s a minuscule…
Jesus Christ, literally. What a beautiful, biblical and symbolic piece of art this is. Forget Tenet for a second, it’s films like this which take the idea of studying time to new heights, A Ghost Story being the only thing in recent years to achieve the profoundly complex magic to be seen here. Not only does this have one of the greatest ‘genre switches’ I’ve ever seen, it inherently defies every aspect of the word genre, which to me is always a positive. Alice Rohrwacher’s fantastic use of Super 16mm adds to the dimensionality of time, celluloid hairs and scratches always dancing at the edge of the frame, creating an organic sense of a documented past. I’ve never seen a film like this before,…
AFI 2018: film #10
“he’ll follow us, you’ll see”
such a cute character, but otherwise, it wasn’t for me. too much and too little going on simultaneously
I love:
- White sunlight with blackened edges
- Flip phones that only work when you extend the antenna
- Howling until time stands still
- Rocks that feel as foreign but look as beautiful as the moon
- Profiteroles with chocolate and fresh cream
- Dreams that come alive
- The smell of a good man
lazzarro looks like he was pulled straight out of a baroque painting, and I'm in love
satisfatoriamente e surpreendentemente bom. muito bem feito em todos os sentidos e muito sensível! bom pra assistir com tempo e bom humor porque é mais paradinho mas vale a pena
La inocencia de lxs protagonistas en el cine de Alice Rohrwacher es como el aire, pero un aire especial, se inspira, se exhala y se puede volver a inspirar porque tiene un oxígeno inagotable.
Una fábula sobre el capitalismo que es mucho mejor si antes se vió Corpo Celeste y Le Meraviglie.
A very interesting and thought-provoking portrayal of inequality, exploitation, and selfishness across time.
Bu filmin başrolünde “iyi” kavramı oynuyor. Son zamanlarda izlediğim en büyüleyici filmlerden biri. Sömürü, çaresiz bir kavramın gözüyle anlatılıyor bize. “İyi”nin gözüyle.
Filmle ilgili önemli olduğunu düşündüğüm bir noktayı da yazayım; bilmeyenler için izlemeden önce hıristiyanlıktaki Lazarus hikayesini okuyun derim. Zira filmdeki Lazzaro, isimden de anlaşılacağı üzere Lazarus’tan esinlenme.
Una fiaba stupenda, che mette in scena un personaggio puro, ma che nel nostro mondo non può sopravvivere o essere accettato e oltre a questo mette a confronto due mondi, un mondo contadino governato sostanzialmente dalla schiavitù e un altro, che è quello moderno, che tutti conosciamo, ma la cui differenza col primo non è poi così grande, il degrado presente in uno è poi lo stesso presente anche nell'altro. E anche il nostro Lazzaro nel suo essere sempre al servizio degli altri e col costante sorriso, non riesce a trovare un posto né nelle campagne, né nella moderna città.
Bebe con ejemplaridad de la tradición cinematográfica italiana, con un guion excepcional que salta constantemente del más prosaico realismo a un lirismo sobrecogedor, sin olvidar cierto surrealismo y un singular humor. Se divide en dos partes, cada una con su propia alma, cada una mejor que la otra, divididas por una secuencia con un giro de guion que te deja con la boca abierta. Tal vez sea esta una de las características principales de la película: espectadores con la boca abierta dejándose llevar por un compendio de géneros bien engranado capaz de componer un mosaico que explica nuestro mundo. Describe a través de sus personajes una variada humanidad, entre los que destaca Lázzaro. Destila a través de su sensible realización…
march around the world 2021: italy
how this warm, mysterious movie shall reside in my memories
(and that's just the way it's got it be, i'm sorry)
<EXPLOITATION RIDDLED CAPITALISM> wistfully staring out into beautiful rolling italian countryside, absentmindedly plucking flower petals and tossing them into the gentle stream of a small babbling brook
[ABBA fading in]
"Look into his angel eyes
One look and you're hypnotized
He'll take your heart and you must pay the price
Look into his angel eyes
You'll think you're in paradise
And one day you'll find out he wears a disguise
Don't look too deep into those angel eyes
Oh no, no, no, no
Ah-ha-ha, ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Ah-ha-ha, ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Ah-ha-ha, I keep thinking 'bout his…
Yo creo que "Lazzaro felice" es el mejor titulo que pudieron darle. Fuera de dos cosas que siento que estuvieron medio mal que sería mostrar más el pasaje de tiempo y la ubicación del tiempo con tecnología o con otras cosas y que se use más la simbologia del lobo la verdad que es una película muy buena, con fotografía y actuaciones muy buenas en especial la de Lazzaro que con poco movimiento facial es el personaje con más sentimientos. La verdad muy buena
También tengo un gusto culposo de películas donde el bueno termina quebrándose
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