“Happy as Lazzaro,” a prizewinner at the Cannes Film Festival, has sold widely around the world, including to China, the U.K., Germany and Spain, following Netflix’s previously announced acquisition of North and Latin American rights.
German sales company The Match Factory has closed deals for more than 20 territories for the time-bending fable about Italy’s transition from a rural society to modernity. The film, directed by Alice Rohrwacher, was a standout in Cannes’ official competition lineup and won the best screenplay award for Rohrwacher (in a tie with Iran’s Nader Saeivar for “3 Faces”).
Set in a pastoral village dominated by a tyrannical tobacco magnate, the fact-inspired story is centered on a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good he is often mistaken for being simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. A bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping.
German sales company The Match Factory has closed deals for more than 20 territories for the time-bending fable about Italy’s transition from a rural society to modernity. The film, directed by Alice Rohrwacher, was a standout in Cannes’ official competition lineup and won the best screenplay award for Rohrwacher (in a tie with Iran’s Nader Saeivar for “3 Faces”).
Set in a pastoral village dominated by a tyrannical tobacco magnate, the fact-inspired story is centered on a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good he is often mistaken for being simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. A bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping.
- 5/30/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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