Vivere (2019)
In a respectable suburb made up of row houses, Luca Attorre — a freelance journalist who struggles to get his features published in the papers — is unable to maintain Susi, a ballerina reduced to teaching dance to overweight women, and Lucilla, their quiet and imaginative six-year- old daughter who suffers from severe bronchial asthma. They are helped economically by Pierpaolo, Luca’s seventeen-year-old son from a previous relationship. Pierpaolo lives in an Art Nouveau house with his mother and grandfather, an important trial lawyer of cases linked to politics who rakes in several million euros a year. In the setting of a magnificent and incomprehensible Rome, both a good mother and a bad one, Mary Ann, a deeply Catholic student of art history from Ireland, au pair for the little Lucilla, is caught in the middle.
Director:
Francesca Archibugi
Writers:
Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo, Paolo Virzì.
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Micaela Ramazzotti as Susi |
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Adriano Giannini as Luca |
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Massimo Ghini as Marinoni |
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Marcello Fonte as Perind |
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Róisín O'Donovan as Mary Ann |
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Andrea Calligari as Pierpaolo |
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Elisa Miccoli as Lucilla |
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Valentina Cervi as Azzurra |
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Enrico Montesano as Avv. De Sanctis |
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Nika Perrone as |
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Lynn Swanson as Sister Bridget |
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Francesco De Santis as |
| Writing | Francesca Archibugi | Story |
| Production | Antonio Rotundi | Casting |
| Directing | Fabio Simonelli | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | Kika Ungaro | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Francesca Archibugi | Director |
| Writing | Francesca Archibugi | Screenplay |
| Writing | Francesco Piccolo | Screenplay |
| Writing | Paolo Virzì | Screenplay |
| Production | Marco Belardi | Producer |
| Editing | Esmeralda Calabria | Editor |
| Art | Alessandro Vannucci | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Valentina Taviani | Costume Designer |
| Sound | Battista Lena | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Alessandro Zanon | Sound |
| Visual Effects | Rodolfo Migliari | Visual Effects |
| Visual Effects | Marco Appolloni | Visual Effects |
| Visual Effects | Danilo Giannoccaro | Visual Effects |