L’Immensita

Clara (Penélope Cruz) and her emotionally distant husband Felice (Vincenzo Amato) relocate to Rome to raise a family. Even though the paint is fresh, and the appliances are new, the crushing expectations around marriage, desire, and gender in the early 1970s remain as traditional as ever. Their children Andrew (played by newcomer Luana Giuliani), Gino, and Diana are likewise poised at a precipice, on the verge of adolescence, with nothing but their imaginations to defuse family tensions. The eldest child, Andrew (nicknamed Adri by his parents), yearns for another life – an outsized, vibrantly-realized vision of a world where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Without an accepted vocabulary for talking about his transgender identity, Andrew tells adults that he’s an alien from another galaxy and makes a habit of running away to pursue a local Roma girl who accepts his boyhood at face value. As an outsider ostracized for her own eccentricities, Clara instinctively strives to protect her son despite not fully understanding him. An effortlessly moving film about growing up, fitting in, and breaking the mold, L’immensita is as freewheeling and creative as its central characters, mixing genres and staging musical numbers out of thin air.

• Clara : Penélope Cruz
• Adri : Luana Giuliani
• Felice : Vincenzo Amato
• Gino : Patrizio Francioni
• Diana : Maria Chiara Goretti
• Sara : Penelope Nieto Conti
• Grandmother : Alvia Reale
• Maria : India Santella
• Doctor : Mariangela Granelli
• Alberto : Carlo Gallo

• Director : Emanuele Crialese
• Producers : Lorenzo Gangarossa, Mario Gianani, & Dimitri Rassam
• Composer : Rauelsson
• Cinematographer : Gergely Pohárnok
• Production Designer : Dimitri Capuani
• Sound Mixer : Pierre-Yves Lavoué
• First Assistant Director : Ciro Scognamiglio
• Gaffer : Alessio Bramucci
• Key Grip : Giorgio Pezzotti
• Location Scout : Roberto Di Coste
• Set Decorator : Alessia Anfuso
• Costume Designer : Massimo Cantini Parrini
• Makeup Artist : Alice Gentili & Gaia Ridolfi
• Hair Stylist : Ivan Spignese
• Casting Directors : Chiara Polizzi & Davide Zurolo
• Editor : Clelio Benevento
• Sound Editor : Simone Altana

• Theatrical Release Date : May 12, 2023
• Production Year : 2022
• Country : Italy
• Language : Italian
• Running Time : 97
• Aspect Ratio : 2:39
• Projection Format : DCP
• Rating : Not Rated
• Genre : Drama