Lazzaro Felice (2018) is a heartbreakingly beautiful movie in two acts. The first in a remote village where peasants work the land of Marquise De Luna from sunset to sunrise in a scenario of poverty and exploitation; the time period is unclear. The second is set in teh present, years later in the city, after the peasants were removed from the illegal situation they had lived all their lives and the ignorance of any potential alternative; the city doesn't offer prosperity or hope so they remain poor and rely on petty crime to get by.
Lazzaro is and remains young, pure, loyal, good-natured, and unfailingly happy throughout the story, unlike all others who age, become wicked, dishonest, grumpy, and disillusioned. Nevertheless, attitudes towards Lazzaro change dramatically: in the first part Lazzaro is bullied and ordered around, obliging diligently without a complaint; in the second part the same Lazzaro is valued almost as the good luck charm that keeps being happy in grim circumstances.
Worth of note are the acting, the music, the idyllic rural landscape contrasting with the dirty realistic urbanity, the shrill class conflict, the inevitable generational clashes. Made me curious about the other filmography by Alice Rohrwacher.
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