

May 22, 2025
1h 57m
IT
Mario Martone
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.

Valeria Golino
Goliarda Sapienza

Matilda De Angelis
Roberta

Elodie
Barbara



Ippolita Di Majo, Mario Martone
96
Corrado Fortuna
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Sonia Zhou
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