Official Selection out of Competition | Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany | Italian | 125 min
Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Happy as Lazzaro is a magic-realist fable that presents a searing portrayal of class divisions. Set in an isolated village, it tells the story of the friendship between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded; and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Little does Lazzaro know that this life-altering friendship will take him on an unexpected journey.
Alice Rohrwacher is an Italian filmmaker born in 1982 in Fiesole, Tuscany, to a German father and an Italian mother. She spent her childhood in Castel San Giorgio where her father worked as a beekeeper. She studied literature and philosophy at the University of Turin, then specialized in scriptwriting at the Scuola Holden in the same city. She made a number of short and documentary films before she directed her debut feature, Heavenly Body, which screened at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2011. Her second feature, The Wonders, was selected to compete in the Official Competition of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and won the Grand Prix.
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