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– Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic ..
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.
22 May 2002
Italian, Sicilian
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Emanuele Crialese
Emanuele Crialese
Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa, Veronica D'Agostino
Grazia is a mother of three who spends suffocating days packing fish while her husband Pietro is at sea. Her oft-erratic behavior leads Pietro into thinking she may need medical attention, and he prepares to send her off to a psychiatric institute in Milan. Their son Pasquale, the one person who understand his mother the most, vows to do whatever it takes to foil his father's plan.
20 wins & 11 nominations.
$905,313
Sony Pictures Classics