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View Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice) film page
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Spoiler-free premise

A kind young farmworker lives among an isolated community controlled by a powerful landowner.

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Kind farmworker Lazzaro lives among sharecroppers on the isolated tobacco estate Inviolata, where Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna illegally keeps the community in debt. His friendship with her son Tancredi leads beyond the estate and into a transformed modern world.

Why it belongs

Alice Rohrwacher makes Lazzaro's goodness a quiet miracle crossing feudal exploitation and modern precarity through earthy texture and fable-like rupture.

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Rohrwacher moves from textured 16 mm pastoral realism into modern fable without abandoning Lazzaro's openhearted viewpoint, deploying landscape, faces, labor, and temporal rupture to expose exploitation across changing eras.

Major award record

Metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20
Cannes1 win2018 · official festival record ↗
Award for Best Screenplay (Ex-Aequo)2018 · Alice ROHRWACHERofficial festival record ↗

Totals include every recorded competitive win. Only Picture or top-film honors, Direction, Screenplay, and lead or supporting performances are named.

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Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250—AFI 100—
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Great Cinema Master List scores

Greatness8.6
Engagement8.4
Ease8.2

Italian · PG-13
Narrative Feature
Mood: Gentle & Strange