
CANNES 2018: HAPPY AS LAZZARO BY ALICE ROHRWARCHER
By Mónica Delgado
Like in Le Meraviglie, Young Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher chooses the fantastic tone for a social parable, but here as a critique of capitalist estates, represented by the hand of an old monarchy that turns farmers into slaves trapped in time. The view of this world of simulations and all shires in a century of changes in the work field, is written from the point of view of a young man, free of all evil, the Lazzaro of the title, that becomes the scapegoat of the being that will concatenate in an imaginative way two times and spaces in an arcade of alienation without utopias.