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Cinema

Intriguing and beguiling but God know what it adds up to: Happy as Lazzaro reviewed

6 April 2019

9:00 AM

6 April 2019

9:00 AM

Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro sets out as a neorealist tale of exploited sharecroppers, but midway through the story it falls off a cliff (literally) and returns as magical realism, although we mustn’t hold that against it. Or should we? I was sad to see the first narrative go, frankly — come back! Come back! — and the second half rather lost me.

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