‘L’Immensità’ Trailer: Penélope Cruz Tries To Hold Her Family Together In Celebrated Venice Drama

Premiering earlier this year at the 2022 Venice Film Festival was Emanuele Crialese‘s celebrated “L’Immensità,” a family drama starring Penélope Cruz. The film is about the story of love between Clara (Cruz) and her children, set in Rome in the ’70s.

The film co-stars Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni, Maria Chiara Goretti, and was well received out of Venice (our review).

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“L’Immensità is the film that I’ve always been trying to make: it’s always been ‘my next film,’” Crialese said in a statement at the time of the family. “But every time, it made way for another story as if I never felt ready, mature, and confident enough. It’s a film about memory that needed a greater distance, a different consciousness. Like all my works, it is at the bottom primarily a film on the family: on the innocence of the children and on their relationship with a mother that could come to life only in the artistic and human encounter with Penélope Cruz, with her sensitivity and her extraordinary ability to interact with three very young people who had never acted before. Luana, Patrizio, and Maria Chiara have remained children and, as such, always intensely and immensely real.”

Here’s the official synopsis:

Rome, 1970s: a world suspended between neighborhoods under construction and those still in black and white, and social achievements and family models that are now outdated. Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment. Their marriage is over: they no longer love each other but can’t break up. Only their children, on whom Clara pours all her desire for freedom, keep them together. Adriana, her eldest, has just turned 12 and is the most attentive witness to Clara’s moods and the growing tensions between her parents. Adriana rejects her name and identity and wants to convince everyone that she is a boy. Her obstinacy brings the already fragile family balance to breaking point. While the children are waiting for a sign that might guide them — a voice from above or a song on the TV maybe — everything changes both around and inside them.

No word on a U.S. release date yet, but Pathe has revealed a new trailer, which you can see below, and the film comes out in French theaters on January 11.