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Respiro
Film / 2002

Respiro

Directed by Emanuele Crialese
Drama

★ 6.6/10Audience rating

Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort …

The story

Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.

Cast

Valeria GolinoGrazia Vincenzo AmatoPietro Francesco CasisaPasquale Veronica D'AgostinoMarinella Filippo PucilloFilippo Muzzi LoffredoNonna Elio GermanoPier Luigi Avy Marcianovelista francese Giuseppe Del Volgozio Pino Matteo SolinaZio Antonio Vincenzo BarrecaCefalo Pasquale De RubelsBufalo
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Donatella Battiali Andrea Barreca Francesco Edoardo Anglieri Domenico Amato

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