A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
March 7, 2018
Original Title:
Manuel
Alternate Titles:
FA IL FIGLIO, MANUEL
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Bibi Film
Production Countries:
Italy
Ratings / Certifications:
IT: T
Runtime: 97
An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom; an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again. These are the characters taken from the real world and transferred into a film that is first of all a shadowing of human beings, of their hopes and little acts of cowardice. But it is also the story of a time of waiting, of a soul going around in circles, a coming of age in a desolate and oppressive, marginal context that becomes a character in its own right.
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