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Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes56%
Metacritic47/100
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
100 audience votes
Key crew
- Ippolita Di MajoWriter
- Mario MartoneWriter
- Mario MartoneDirector
- Valerio VigliarOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Valeria GolinoGoliarda Sapienza
- Matilda De AngelisRoberta
- ElodieBarbara
- Corrado FortunaAngelo
- Francesco GheghiCameriere bar della stazione
- Antonio GerardiAlbert
- Carolina RosiAmica derubata
- Daphne Scoccia'James Dean'
- Francesco SicilianoEditore
- Sonia ZhouSuzie Wong
- Ondina QuadriGuardia
- Paola PacePizzi