2025/05/22 (US) | Drama, History
Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza commits a desperate theft that costs her her reputation and social position. Incarcerated in Italy’s largest female prison, she finds herself living alongside thieves, junkies, sex workers and revolutionaries. After her release, she continues to meet with these women and over the course of a sweltering summer, a life-changing relationship flowers – a relationship that will reawaken her the desire to live and to write.
Mario Martone
Director
Valeria Golino
Goliarda Sapienza
Matilda De Angelis
Roberta
Elodie
Barbara
Corrado Fortuna
Angelo
Francesco Gheghi
Cameriere bar della stazione
Antonio Gerardi
Albert
Carolina Rosi
Amica derubata
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Released
Ippolita Di Majo
Writer
Carmine Guarino
Production Design
Loredana Buscemi
Costume Designer
Mario Martone
Writer
Jacopo Quadri
Editor
Paolo Carnera
Director of Photography
Gennaro Formisano
Line Producer