Tenderness
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2017
June 1 - 23, 2017
Loosely based on Lorenzo Moreno’s Premio Strega Prize–winning novel The Temptation to Be Happy, the latest by Gianni Amelio explores loneliness, heartbreak, and complicated family relations in modern-day Naples.
The latest by Lamerica director Gianni Amelio explores loneliness, heartbreak, and complicated family relations in modern-day Naples. Renato Carpentieri stars as Lorenzo, an elderly widower estranged from his children who gradually builds a friendship with the new family next door—until a catastrophe pulls them apart. Loosely based on Lorenzo Moreno’s Premio Strega Prize–winning novel The Temptation to Be Happy, Tenderness is a powerfully acted character study as well as an evocative portrait of middle-class Naples, beautifully filmed by Luca Bigazzi (The Great Beauty).
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