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Happy as Lazzaro
Directed by
Alice Rohrwacher
PG-13
2018
2h 8m
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7.5
91%
81%
7.4
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An unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.
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Cast of Happy as Lazzaro
Agnese Graziani
Antonia (young)
Luke Chikovani
Tancredi (young)
Alba Rohrwacher
Antonia
Sergi López
Ultimo
Tommaso Ragno
Tancredi
Natalino Balasso
Nicola
Nicoletta Braschi
Marchesa Alfonsina De Luna
Carlo Massimino
Pippo
Daria Pascal Attolini
Maria Grazia (Adult)
Maddalena Baiocco
Stefania
Giulia Caccavello
Teresa
Annunziata Capretto
Natalina anziana
Alessandro Genovesi
Maresciallo
Davide Denci
Appuntato
Edoardo Montalto
Pippo (young)
Leonardo Nigro
Gala Othero Winter
Stefania
Iris Pulvano
Natalina (adult)
Ettore Scarpa
Maresciallo
Pasqualina Scuncia
Suora
Happy as Lazzaro Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
Alice Rohrwacher follows her beguiling The Wonders (2014) with the no less lyrical and even more fabulist Happy as Lazzaro.
Book & Film Globe
Stephen Garrett
The film floats strangely through history, anchored only by its eternal message that a generous heart is the only way to salvation.
Discussing Film
Ben Rolph
It is a beguiling fairy tale that mesmorises.
The Ringer
Adam Nayman
It's in this same spirit of unchangeability that Lazzaro's goodness endures -not as a foil to the forces of exploitation, but as their instrument.
Vanity Fair
K. Austin Collins
Rohrwacher has something nimbler, kinder, than pure miserabilism up her sleeve, which is right in line with the great, longstanding tradition of Italian neorealism.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
Part of the movie's fun - and it is fun, once you adjust to its uninsistent rhythms - is how it forces you to share Lazarro's go-along-to-get-along ebullience.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
So mind-bending is its big twist.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
It's so traditional that it feels decades old, at the very least, yet it's one of the freshest films of the year.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
Rohrwacher isn't interested in resurrecting the ghosts of movies past so much as channeling the Brothers Grimm. She does not want to just show you pretty pictures, but a genuine vision.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
Tardiolo's silent radiance and his director's offhand audacity produce their own bewildering cinematic alchemy.
RogerEbert.com
Tomris Laffly
Easily among this year's finest films and laced with an unapologetic social message, 'Happy As Lazzaro' dares one to imagine a reality where each individual would task themselves to be as selfless and morally whole as its main protagonist.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
This movie feels bracingly new and also like something that has been here forever. It has the urgency of a news bulletin and the authority of a classic.
AV Club
Lawrence Garcia
The film isn't entirely free of didacticism or easy sentiment, but a sense of delayed recognition is what makes it such a knotty experience.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Borrowing themes and tropes from such grand directorial forerunners as Visconti and Pasolini, Rohrwacher imaginatively maps the ills of modernity onto long-standing injustices.
Slant Magazine
Jake Cole
Happy as Lazzaro is one of the sharper, and funnier, recent films to reckon with the injustices of class disparities.
Village Voice
Bilge Ebiri
An escalating parable, a film that starts in a somewhat realist vein and then gradually becomes more unreal, gathering symbolic force along the way.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
Though gently outraged in its portrait of class divisions, Happy As Lazzaro mostly takes its tonal cues from the eponymous character's comically gentle, trusting nature.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Rohrwacher's unhurried pace, filled with drifting camerawork and dead air, combines documentary-like aesthetic of Italian neorealism with mysterious circumstances, a steady formula that by now reflects her homegrown style.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
It feels like part two needed another couple of drafts before this was ready to go into production.
Variety
Guy Lodge
A slow but bewitching burn that rewards viewers' patience with humor and uncanny grace, sealing Rohrwacher's status...as a truly distinctive European major.
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