Chlorine
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2015
June 4 - 11, 2015
Q&A with Sara Serraiocco on June 7
In this sensitively wrought drama that screened in competition at Berlin and Sundance, 17-year-old Jenny (Salvo's Sara Serraiocco) must abandon dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer to hold her family together after her mother’s unexpected death and her father’s subsequent nervous breakdown.
Q&A with Sara Serraiocco on June 7
Seventeen-year-old Jenny (Salvo’s Sara Serraiocco) dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer, but when her mother dies unexpectedly and her father suffers a nervous breakdown, she’s forced to sacrifice her goals to keep the family together. After uprooting from the coastal town of Ostia to the mountains of Abruzzo, Jenny takes a job as a hotel maid, her salary being used to support her father and 9-year-old brother. Co-starring Ivan Franek (The Great Beauty) as the ski-lift operator with whom she becomes romantically involved, the sensitive Chlorine was nominated for the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
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