The Complexity of Happiness
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2016
June 2 - 8, 2016
Valerio Mastandrea stars as Enrico, a businessman whose empathy is put to the test when, returning home one night, he finds a lonely exchange student waiting in his apartment, abandoned by his commitment-averse brother. Anchored by Mastandrea’s warm, subtly generous performance, this film asks what it means to make a positive difference in the lives of others.
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, director Gianni Zanasi is no longer able to attend.
In Gianni Zanasi’s latest feature, Valerio Mastandrea stars as Enrico Giusti, a comfortably unattached businessman whose empathy and compassion are put to the test when, returning home one night from a business trip, he finds a lonely Israeli exchange student (Hadas Yaron) waiting in his apartment, abandoned there by his commitment-averse younger brother. Just as he’s beginning to navigate this unexpected turn in his personal life, Enrico’s professional life will take on its own unforeseen complications when he is named co-director of a family-run corporation, along with the two recently orphaned, adolescent children of the company’s founders. Anchored by Mastandrea’s warm, subtly generous lead performance, this film quietly asks what it means to make a positive difference in the lives of others, and suggests that kindness and simple human decency can go a long way in improving the lives of everyone they touch.
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