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L’Immensita
L’IMMENSITA a film by Emanuele Crialese
Clara (Penélope Cruz) and her emotionally distant husband Felice (Vincenzo Amato) relocate to Rome to raise a family. Even though the paint is fresh, and the appliances are new, the crushing expectations around marriage, desire, and gender in the early 1970s remain as traditional as ever. Their children Andrew (played by newcomer Luana Giuliani), Gino, and Diana are likewise poised at a precipice, on the verge of adolescence, with nothing but their imaginations to defuse family tensions. The eldest child, Andrew (nicknamed Adri by his parents), yearns for another life – an outsized, vibrantly-realized vision of a world where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Without an accepted vocabulary for talking about his transgender identity, Andrew tells adults that he’s an alien from another galaxy and makes a habit of running away to pursue a local Roma girl who accepts his boyhood at face value. As an outsider ostracized for her own eccentricities, Clara instinctively strives to protect her son despite not fully understanding him. An effortlessly moving film about growing up, fitting in, and breaking the mold, L’immensita is as freewheeling and creative as its central characters, mixing genres and staging musical numbers out of thin air.
Official Selection: 2022 Venice International Film Festival
Official Selection: 2023 Sundance Film Festival
“L’Immensità is a grand and vibrant work of art.” –The Wrap
“Everything in L’Immensità is beautiful even when everything wasn’t… Crialese’s odd, affecting memory piece layers the world as it was, is and could be in the same gilded frame.” –Variety
Coming to Theaters
May 12, 2023
New York City – Angelika Film Center
West Los Angeles – Laemmle Royal
May 19, 2023
New York City – AMC Empire 25
New York City – New Plaza Cinema
Kew Gardens, NY – Kew Gardens Cinema
Mamaroneck, NY – Mamaroneck Cinemas
Glendale, CA – AMC Americana at the Brand 18
Torrance, CA – AMC Rolling Hills 20
Encino, CA – Laemmle Town Center
Foothill Ranch, CA – Regal Foothill Towne Center
Chicago – AMC River East 21
Chicago – Music Box Theatre
Dallas – AMC NorthPark 15
San Francisco – AMC Metreon 16
Houston – Regal Edwards Greenway Grand Plaza
Aventura, FL – AMC Aventura Mall 24
Coral Gables, FL – Coral Gables Art Cinema
Miami Beach – Regal South Beach
Portland, OR – Living Room Theaters
Tucson – Loft Cinema
May 26, 2023
Huntington, NY – Cinema Arts Center
Santa Monica, CA – Monica Film Center
San Rafael, CA – Smith Rafael Film Center
Atlanta – Tara Theater
Sedona, AZ – Mary D. Fisher Theater
Buffalo, NY – North Park Theater
Knoxville, TN – Regal Downtown West
Rochester, NY – Little Theater
May 31, 2023
Boulder, CO – Dairy Arts Center
June 2, 2023
Claremont, CA – Laemmle Claremont 5
Philadelphia – Landmark Ritz 5
Wilmington, DE – The Screening Room
Dallas – Angelika Film Center Dallas
Santa Rosa, CA – Summerfield Cinema
Greenbelt, MD – Old Greenbelt Theater
Denver – Landmark Chez Artiste
Sacramento, CA – Tower by Angelika
June 3, 2023
Hudson, NY – Time and Space Limited
June 7, 2023
Juneau, AK – Gold Town Theater
June 9, 2023
Skillman, NJ – Montgomery Cinema
Bryn Mawr, PA – Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Fairfax, VA – Angelika Mosaic
Scottsdale, AZ – Harkins Shea 14
Sarasota, FL – Burns Court
Minneapolis – MSP Film at the Main
San Diego, CA – Angelika Carmel Mountain
Cincinnati – Mariemont
Tulsa, OK – Circle Cinema
Eugene, OR – Art House Eugene
June 10, 2023
Vineyard Haven, MA – Martha’s Vineyard Film Center
June 16, 2023
Salem, OR – Salem Cinema
San Diego, CA – Digital Gym Cinema
Nashville, TN – Belcourt
Santa Barbara, CA – Hitchcock Cinema
L’IMMENSITA