L’immensità

Directed by Director's notes
  • Emanuele Crialese
Directed by
  • Emanuele Crialese
Year
  • 2022
Length
  • 94 min.
Year
  • 2022
Length
  • 94 min.
Cast
  • Penélope Cruz
  • Luana Giuliani
  • Vincenzo Amato
  • Patrizio Francioni
  • Maria Chiara Goretti
 
  • Penelope Nieto Conti
  • Alvia Reale
  • India Santella
  • Mariangela Granelli
  • Valentina Cenni
Synopsis

Rome, the 1970s: a world suspended between new districts under construction and TV variety shows still in black & white, social achievements and family models that have become obsolete.
Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment. Their marriage is over: they no longer love each other but can’t break up. Their children, on whom Clara pours all her desire for freedom, are the only thing still holding them together.
Adriana, the eldest, has just turned 12 and is the acute observer of Clara’s moods and of the growing tensions between her parents. She rejects her name and identity. She tries to convince everyone she’s a boy and her obstinacy takes the already fragile family balance to a breaking point.
As the children wait for a sign to guide them, be it a voice from above or a song on TV, everything is changing around and within them.

Director's notes
  • L’immensità is the film I’ve always been chasing: it was always “my next film”, but each time it would make way for another story, as if I never felt ready, mature or secure enough.

    It’s a film about memory and it needed a greater distance, a different awareness. Like all my works, it is above all a film about the family: about the innocence of children and their relationship with a mother who could only come to life thanks to the encounter, an artistic and human one, with Penélope Cruz, with her sensitivity and extraordinary ability to interact with three very young non-actors who’d never performed before. Luana, Patrizio and Maria Chiara remained children throughout, and as such were always intensely and immensely authentic.
Directed by
  • Emanuele Crialese
Story
  • Emanuele Crialese
Screenplay
  • Emanuele Crialese
  • Francesca Manieri
  • Vittorio Moroni
Produced by
  • Mario Gianani
  • Lorenzo Gangarossa
A production
  • Wildside (a Fremantle Group company), Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia, Chapter 2, Pathé, France 3 Cinema
Co-produced by
  • Dimitri Rassam
  • Ardavan Safaee
Executive producer
  • Olivia Sleiter
Colorist
  • Red
Editing
  • Clelio Benevento
Scenography
  • Dimitri Capuani
Director of photography
  • Gergely Pohárnok
Costumes
  • Massimo Cantini Parrini
Furniture
  • Alessia Anfuso
Music
  • Rauelsson
Sound engineer
  • Pierre-Yves Lavoué
Assistant Director
  • Ciro Scognamiglio
Casting
  • Chiara Polizzi
  • Davide Zurolo
General organizer
  • Erik Paoletti
Production supervisor
  • Saverio Guarascio
  • Mandella Quilici
With the participation of
  • Canal+
  • Ciné+
  • France Televisions
Italian distribution
  • Warner Bros. Pictures
International sales
  • Pathé
Director's notes
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L’immensità is the film I’ve always been chasing: it was always “my next film”, but each time it would make way for another story, as if I never felt ready, mature or secure enough.

It’s a film about memory and it needed a greater distance, a different awareness. Like all my works, it is above all a film about the family: about the innocence of children and their relationship with a mother who could only come to life thanks to the encounter, an artistic and human one, with Penélope Cruz, with her sensitivity and extraordinary ability to interact with three very young non-actors who’d never performed before. Luana, Patrizio and Maria Chiara remained children throughout, and as such were always intensely and immensely authentic.