Happy as Lazzaro - Official Trailer (2018)
Genre: Drama
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
Written by Alice Rohrwacher
Starring: Nicoletta Braschi
Distributed by Netflix
Release date: 13 May 2018 (Cannes)
Running time: 130 minutes
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Happy as Lazzaro (Italian: Lazzaro Felice) is a 2018 Italian drama film directed by Alice Rohrwacher. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, Rohrwacher won the award for Best Screenplay.
This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the terrible Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna, the queen of cigarettes. A loyal bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping. This strange and improbable alliance is a revelation for Lazzaro. A friendship so precious that it will travel in time and transport Lazzaro in search of Tancredi. His first time in the big city, Lazzaro is like a fragment of the past lost in the modern world.
