Happy as Lazzaro

Synopsis

In an isolated rural Italian sharecropping estate called Inviolata, an exploitative tobacco marchioness keeps fifty peasants in medieval ignorance and sharecropper debt peonage unaware that sharecropping has been legally abolished, centered on Lazzaro, a pure-hearted, uncomplaining young peasant who falls off a cliff and awakens decades later un-aged as a holy fool wandering into a modern urban wasteland. Alice Rohrwacher's Cannes Best Screenplay-winning magical realist masterpiece.