ITALY · 2019

The Staggering Girl

Luca Guadagnino
family reconciliation childhood trauma artistic legacy Italian-American identity memory and nostalgia
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Francesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York, must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother. There, the ghosts of her childhood will come to her through her mother's art.

Year2019
CountryItaly
DirectorLuca Guadagnino
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