This beautifully rendered tangram of a movie sees Rohrwacher pushing her fascination with fables to its most literal (and literate) degree.
Nothing much makes sense in “Happy as Lazzaro,” until a stunning mid-film pivot that shakes time and space and snaps it all together, its world emerging from the disturbance as senseless again — but in a completely different, all too recognizable way. The third and most richly strange feature yet from Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher, […]
