The Vice of Hope
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2019
June 6 - 12, 2019
A woman desperately fights to escape the criminal underworld she was born into in this breathless tale of resilience and unexpected grace.
Q&A with Edoardo De Angelis
A compassionate woman desperately fights to escape the criminal life she was born into in this breathless tale of resilience and inner strength. Maria (Pina Turco) assists her aunt in the family business of trafficking pregnant women through the shadowy, black market baby underground. When she helps one of the women escape, Maria—now pregnant herself—is plunged deeper into the underworld than she is prepared to go. Capturing the gray, rubble-strewn bleakness of its lawless port town setting in immersive, tension-building tracking shots, this stirring survival saga finds unexpected grace in a seemingly hopeless world.
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