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Corpo Celeste

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Italy, Switzerland, France · 2011
1h 40m
Director Alice Rohrwacher
Starring Yle Vianello, Pasqualina Scuncia, Salvatore Cantalupo, Anita Caprioli
Genre Drama

13-year-old Marta struggles to find her place in southern Italy after growing up in Switzerland. She joins a catechism class at a local church but feels alienated and restless, constantly conflicting with her mother, sister, and teachers. A coming-of-age story about pushing boundaries at home, at school, and in the Catholic Church.

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Variety by

Rohrwacher's picture offers a Dardennes-esque look at a working-class teen's growing pains in a backwater parish in southern Italy. Minor tonal inconsistencies are overcome by this intimate tale's naturalistic thesping and loose lensing style.

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Time Out London by Cath Clarke

Stick with it and writer/director Alice Rohrwacher’s first feature reveals another side: taking a small town as a microcosm of Berlusconi’s something-rotten-at-the-core Italy.

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Time Out by Eric Hynes

Alice Rohrwacher's debut fictional feature is an uncommonly insightful portrait of nascent womanhood, assisted in no small measure by Vianello's disarmingly naturalistic performance.

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The New York Times by Rachel Saltz

Ms. Rohrwacher combines a documentary impulse (effective in family scenes) with a more allegorical one. Her film gets clunky when allegory has the upper hand, and that means Corpo Celeste often stumbles, along with its 12-year-old heroine, Marta (Yle Vianello).

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Total Film by Tom Dawson

With echoes of the Dardennes and Lucrecia Martel, Corpo Celeste's acute sense of place, feel for adolescent confusion and miraculous resolution suggest that Rohrwacher is a talent to watch.

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