Respiro

Respiro

6.6IMDb Score
Released:2002-05-18
Genre:Drama
Duration:95 min
Country:Italy,France
Director:Emanuele Crialese
Actors:Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa, Veronica D'Agostino, Filippo Pucillo
Production:Fandango, Roissy Films, Medusa Film, Eurimages, Tele+, TPS Cinéma, Les Films des Tournelles

Overview:

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.

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