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  • Drama, Fantasy

A CHIARA

  • 2022
  • 2 HR, 1 min
  • JUL 29 → AUG 11
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Released May 27, 2022, Italy, France
Drama, Fantasy
2 hours, 1 minute
Neon
Italian with English Subtitles
Starring
  • Swamy Rotolo
  • Claudio Rotolo
  • Grecia Rotolo
  • Carmela Fumo
  • Silvana Palumbo
  • Rosa Caccomo
Director

Jonas Carpignano

Film Information

Winner of the Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight Award and a rising voice of Italian cinema, filmmaker Jonas Carpignano continues his exploration of the intricacies of life in contemporary Calabria with this compelling character study of a teenager, Chiara, who gradually comes to discover that her close-knit family is not all that it seems. In this furiously paced drama, Chiara investigates her father’s disappearance just one day after her oldest sister’s birthday. As she gets closer to the difficult truth about her mysteriously missing father—and the crime syndicates that control her region— Chiara is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself. A coming-of-age chronicle like no other, A CHIARA is both an intimate and universal family story.

Film Stills

Full Cast
Swamy Rotolo
Claudio Rotolo
Grecia Rotolo
Carmela Fumo
Silvana Palumbo
Rosa Caccomo
Additional Credits
Jonas Carpignano Director

Reviews

“What’s best about A Chiara is its totality of naturalism and subjectivity — how it humanely complicates a teenager’s newfound self-possession…”

Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times

“The essence of the film is Chiara watching and learning, and watching Swamy Rotolo observe is simply a marvel. With her dark eyes and eyebrows, she delivers truly fierce face, like all the great Italian actresses that came before her.”

Katie Walsh
TheWrap

“In the neorealist tradition, A Chiara is a slice-of-life drama built around an idea and animated by a profound moral quandary.”

A.O. Scott
The New York Times

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