Summer 1975, a 13-year-old girl, suitcase in one hand and a bag of shoes in the other, knocks at an unknown door. Her sister Adriana opens it, her eyes wrinkled, her braids unraveled: they’ve never seen each other before. So begins the story of a teenager who lost everything overnight: a comfortable home, her closest friends, the unconditional love of her parents – or rather the people she believed were her parents. For “l’arminuta” as her peers called her, a new and very different life begins, from the adoptive family to her real one, going from wealth to poverty, both material and moral. Her new home is small, dark, there are brothers and sisters everywhere and little food on the table to share. But there’s Adriana, who shares a bed with her. And there’s Vincenzo, who looks at her as if she were already a woman.
This film is based on the bestselling novel “L’arminuta” by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, winner of the 2017 Premio Campiello literary Award.
Directed by Giuseppe Bonito
Italy, Switzerland, 2021 – 110 min
Film in Italian with English subtitles
LOCATION
Embassy of Italy
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
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