L’immensità
Director: Emanuele Crialese Run Time: 97 min. Release Year: 2022 Language: Italian
Starring: Aurora Quattrocchi, Elena Arvigo, Luana Giuliani, Penélope Cruz, Vincenzo Amato
Tagline: Clara (Penélope Cruz) and her emotionally distant husband Felice (Vincenzo Amato) relocate to Rome to raise a family. Even though the paint is fresh, and the appliances are new, the crushing expectations around marriage, desire, and gender in the early 1970s remain as traditional as ever. Their children Andrew (played by newcomer Luana Giuliani), Gino, and Diana are likewise poised at a precipice, on the verge of adolescence, with nothing but their imaginations to defuse family tensions. The eldest child, Andrew (nicknamed Adri by his parents), yearns for another life – an outsized, vibrantly-realized vision of a world where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Without an accepted vocabulary for talking about his transgender identity, Andrew tells adults that he’s an alien from another galaxy and makes a habit of running away to pursue a local Roma girl who accepts his boyhood at face value. As an outsider ostracized for her own eccentricities, Clara instinctively strives to protect her son despite not fully understanding him. An effortlessly moving film about growing up, fitting in, and breaking the mold, L’immensita is as freewheeling and creative as its central characters, mixing genres and staging musical numbers out of thin air.
Critic Quotes:
“I have seen several trans coming-of-age films — few with this amount of specificity, nuance, and imagination.” – Autostraddle
“A grand and vibrant work of art.” – The Wrap
“A love letter to its characters and their real-life counterparts, the film is, above all, a witness to the kind of expansive love and kinship that is formed in the margins but nonetheless expansive in its imaginings of the world.” – Los Angeles Times
Genre: Fiction, Drama, Coming-of-Age, LGBTQIA2S+
Showtimes:
Monday, June 19, 2023: 3:05, 7:15
Tuesday, June 20, 2023: 12:30, 4:40
Wednesday, June 21, 2023: 2:20, 4:30
Thursday, June 22, 2023: 1:00, 5:10
Friday, June 23, 2023: 12:30
Saturday, June 24, 2023: No Shows
Sunday, June 25, 2023: 4:25
Monday, June 26, 2023: 3:00, 7:05
Tuesday, June 27, 2023: 2:45
Wednesday, June 28, 2023: 12:45, 4:45
Thursday, June 29, 2023: 12:00, 4:05
Ticket Prices: $12 Regular / $10 Students & Seniors / $9 Members