Italy, 2023 / 118 Mins
Director: Paola Cortellesi
Starring: Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Romana Maggiora Vergano
Writer, director and leading actress Paola Cortellesi is one of Italy's most dynamic and versatile artists. Her directorial debut does not proclaim feminism with a raised index finger, but tells of the many small steps on the long road to emancipation. In terms of genre, she constantly switches between drama and comedy. It is a laconic, shoulder-shrugging humour with which the women hold together in this repressive time under the radar of tyrannical men, a light, almost casual female solidarity in the face of the superiority of patriarchy with its outdated role models. Ideas that persist to this day.
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