I see you're watching La vita davanti a sé. Would you recommend it? Mi ispira tantissimo la Loren in un'insolita veste "cruda" senza i soliti glitter hollywoodiani, ma al contempo... come hai detto, the bar for representation is so low in Italy... 😅
waited until i was done to answer and i'm gonna say YES!!!
it's not the best movie you'll ever watch by any means, but i really really liked it (pure il piantino finale con la pausini in sottofondo mi sono fatto lmao), and it's certainly not the kind of story or characters we usually get in italy -- like, name the last italian movie you watched that had a black muslim kid, a holocaust survivor, a trans woman played by a trans woman, a supporting cast of muslim & jewish characters AND was competently written & directed (like, exceptionally so, given that it's a netflix movie. really wouldn't look out of place in a cinema if we still had those)
and on top of that there's sophia loren, who's just.....y'know, SOPHIA FUCKING LOREN
