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Happy as Lazzaro

Lazzaro felice

2018

Alice Rohrwacher

Adriano Tardiolo, Alba Rohrwacher, Agnese Graziani, Luca Chikovani ...

7.2

7,237

Drama A man travels through time for about 50 years, but this is not science fiction.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"[It] mixes time-bending fabulism with contemporary social critique to gradually exhilarating effect (...) A slow but bewitching burn that rewards viewers’ patience with humor and uncanny grace"	POS
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Half a good movie (...) [It] tries — but never quite succeeds — to contrast timeless sainthood with the recent past and the present (...) Rohrwacher seems partially lost in the second part"	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"A unique allegorical mystery (...) A fascinating look at rural life with a supernatural twist (...) [It] confirms Rohrwacher has much to say, and her own beguiling ways of saying it."	POS
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"[It] is both transporting and maddening (...) If you can surrender to her peculiar vision, its beauty is undeniable; if not, impatience may set in long before the film winds down"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"What makes 'Happy as Lazzaro' a great movie, though — a film that acquires new depths of emotion and meaning each time you see it — is the piercing clarity of Alice Rohrwacher’s vision."	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"What starts out as an impressive mix of various classic-Italian-cinema strains turns into something much richer, rewarding and singular (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Barbara Scharres rogerebert.com	"The mix of socially relevant plot elements, religious symbolism, and cryptic fantasy is almost too much for one film to bear."	NEU
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"A genuine UFO of a film that seems to come from another time and place, and certainly another imagination (...) Artfully playing on spatial and temporal dislocation"	POS
United Kingdom	Gwilym Mumford The Guardian	"[Lazzaro] is a figure as elusive as this beguiling, half-remembered dream of a film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Lawrence Garcia AV Club	"The resulting amalgam is as beguiling as it is, well, wondrous—all the more so for how unassuming and easygoing it feels"	POS

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