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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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
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Valeria GolinoGoliarda Sapienza
Matilda De AngelisRoberta
ElodieBarbara
Corrado FortunaAngelo
Francesco GheghiCameriere bar della stazione
Antonio GerardiAlbert
Daphne Scoccia'James Dean'
Francesco SicilianoEditore
Ondina QuadriGuardia
Paola PacePizziExplore the crew
- Writer
- Ippolita Di Majo
- Writer
- Mario Martone
- Editor
- Jacopo Quadri
- Director of Photography
- Paolo Carnera
- Director
- Mario Martone
- Original Music Composer
- Valerio Vigliar