NEW ITALIAN CINEMA in San Francisco, Nov. 22-24-Dec. 2, 2019

[Chris Knipp]

EDOARDO DE ANGELIS: THE VICE OF HOPE/IL VIZIO DELLA SPERANZA (2018)


[B]PINA TURCO IN THE VICE OF HOPE[/B]

[PREVIEW]

The Vice of Hope
Il vizio della speranza
DIR: Edoardo De Angelis Italy, 2018, 96 min
Sunday, November 24, 5:00 pm
Edoardo De Angelis, director of the critically acclaimed Indivisible, returns to the Neapolitan coastal area with the beautifully told tale of Maria (Pina Turco), a young woman forced by economic circumstances to work as a trafficker of paid surrogate mothers, transporting them clandestinely along the Volturno river. But when one of the pregnant women disappears, Maria is threatened by her complicated boss, Zi’Mari (Maria Confalone) and has to find the missing woman. Accompanied by her trusty pit bull, Maria encounters a world of wide-open spaces but narrowing choices. CAST: Pina Turco, Massimiliano Rossi, Marina Confalone, Cristina Donadio, Marcello Romolo

De Angelis is remembered for the 2016 Indivisible, about conjoined female wins, which I reviewed briefly in a New York movie journal. The new film was reviewed by Deborah Young in Hollywood Reporter .