Synopsis
Corpo Celeste (2011) is Alice Rohrwacher's debut drama, available to watch online on iFILM. After a childhood in Switzerland, thirteen-year-old Marta moves back to a hard-edged town in southern Italy.
Her mother signs her up for catechism at the local parish, where confirmation is treated as a rite everyone simply passes through. The rote prayers and chirpy religious pop songs do nothing for the questions burning inside her. Marta starts testing the limits — of the class, of the priest, of the faith itself.
Rohrwacher films adolescence with an almost documentary eye: peeling walls, an awkward body, belief that reads more like longing than comfort. The film premiered at Cannes in the Directors' Fortnight. Quiet arthouse cinema for anyone drawn to slow Italian realism. Stream Corpo Celeste (2011) online on iFILM.
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