JIFF: Dolce Fine Giornata

Victorian Premiere

“Traces the connections between the personal and the political, transforming a family drama into a consideration of European identity.” - Screen International

Maria Linde, a free-spirited, Jewish Polish Nobel Prize winner, lives in Tuscany surrounded by warmth and chaos in her family’s villa. A loving mother and grandmother, she also fosters a secret flirtation with the much younger Egyptian man who runs a nearby seaside inn. After a terrorist attack in Rome, Maria refuses to succumb to the hysterical fear and anti-immigrant sentiment that quickly emerge, deciding in her acceptance speech of a local honor to boldly decry Europe’s eroding democracy—but she is unprepared for the public and personal havoc her comments wreak.

Language: Italian, English, Polish (English subtitles)

Rating

E

Country

PL

Language

Italian, English, Polish (English subtitles)

Cast

Krystyna Janda, Kasia Smutniak, Antonio Catania

Director

Jacek Borcuch