Alice Rohrwacher’s third film slips across times and genres with a honeyed beauty
uman beings are like animals: set them free and they realise they are slaves, locked in their own misery. Right now they suffer, but they don’t know,” says Marchesa Alfonsina De Luna , owner of a tobacco farm in central Italy in the early 1980s. The Marchesa might well be right about her exploited, unpaid workers’ ignorance; they don’t realise sharecropping is considered slavery. Yet the Marchesa couldn’t be more wrong about the labourers’ misery, not least the cherubic Lazzaro .
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