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The film follows a young girl's coming of age experience while preparing to receive her Confirmation. She is attending catechism classes in a parish run by a corrupt priest, Don Mario, and for her the parish quickly becomes a place of dubious morality and questionable authority. The narrative thus explores the relation she maintains with her own self, but also with an alienating world around her, in which the Catholic Church plays a big part.
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Cast:
Yle Vianello, Salvatore Cantalupo, Anita Caprioli, Renato Carpentieri -
Original Title:
Corpo Celeste -
Country:
Italy -
Year:
2011 - 100 min Subtitles PT
Director
Alice Rohrwacher
Leading figure in Italian auteur cinema, Alice Rohrwacher studied Literature and Philosophy at the University of Turin. She wrote and directed her first fiction feature film Corpo Celeste in 2011, which screened at the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, and was awarded the Nastro d'Argento Prize. In 2014, Rohrwacher presented her second feature film The Wonders at the main Competition in Cannes. The film won the Grand Prix, establishing her as a major director of the new generation of trans-Alpine filmmakers. Her latest film, Happy as Lazzaro (2018), has also premiered in Cannes’ Competition, and has been internationally acclaimed by the critics and the public.
