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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 29 Nov 2018

Happy as Lazzaro is slow to reveal its full shape: It’s a realist snapshot of downtrodden lives that gradually takes on shadings of fable…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 28 Nov 2018

What starts out as an impressive mix of various classic-Italian-cinema strains turns into something much richer, rewarding and singular…

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By Lawrence Garcia (34) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Nov 2018

Poised somewhere between despondency and hope, its conclusion suggests that, unable to see pure goodness even when it’s right before our…

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By Joseph Walsh (276) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 May 2018

With a rich, textured plot in which things are never quite what they seem, Rohrwacher paints a magical portrait of the decay of rural life,…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 May 2018

Lazzaro Felice has genuine sweep and grandeur, and Rohrwacher’s most impressive feat here might be her ability to find just the right narrative…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 May 2018

You could argue that Lazzaro Felice owes a debt to Pasolini with its fascination for peasants, saints, and faces, or even Gabriel Garcia Marquez…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Screen International (2,241) on 17 May 2018

Beautifully shot, like Rohrwacher’s other features, on Super-16, this film, with its richly textured images, does indeed feel at times like…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 17 May 2018

The movie lulls you into its unpredictable rhythms, and a striking poetry creeps into the material, finally overtaking it…

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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 May 2018

Through a few dreamlike, discreet and beautifully placed sequences, Rohrwacher makes us believe that a world of empathy and accord may someday…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 17 May 2018

The film, for all its interest in fables, trades less in morals than in equivocal, irony-laced human observation…

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By Gwilym Mumford (24) for The Guardian (2,969) on 17 May 2018

With Happy as Lazzaro, Rohrwacher has crafted a magic-realist fable that doubles as an origin myth for a modern Italy subsumed by corruption…

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By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 17 May 2018

If you can surrender to her peculiar vision, its beauty is undeniable; if not, impatience may set in long before the film winds down just past…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 May 2018

Though gently outraged in its portrait of class divisions, Happy As Lazzaro mostly takes its tonal cues from the eponymous character’s comically…

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By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 May 2018

The main problem of Happy as Lazzaro is that it's unclear what Rohrwacher finally wants to say in part two, which combines the near-documentary…

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