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Happy as Lazzaro
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #895
- IMDb #1172
- Metacritic #420
- Letterboxd #436
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #917
- Metacritic Critics #297
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- Metacritic Audience #1092
- Criticker #751
- Kinopoisk #1803
- AlloCiné #1658
- Trakt #1431
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 61, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 91. Critics average 89, everyone else 76.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young, infinitely good-hearted peasant named Lazzaro works on a tobacco farm that operates under a feudal system of exploitation. A friendship with the marquis's spoiled son leads to a event that transports Lazzaro decades into the future, where he encounters the same people, now living in a modern, yet still cruel, city.
Details
- Director
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Writer
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Released
- 31 May 2018
- Country
- France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland
- Language
- Italian
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 2 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
Full cast (38) →
Awards & nominations
See all 3 →1 major award won · 2 wins from 3 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Cannes Film Festival 2018 | Best Screenplay | Alice Rohrwacher | Winner |
| Independent Spirit Awards 2018 | Best International Film | Happy as Lazzaro | Nominee |
| National Board of Review 2018 | Top Five Foreign-Language Films | Happy as Lazzaro | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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3 awards — Happy as Lazzaro
×| Best Screenplay | Alice Rohrwacher | Winner |
| Best International Film | Happy as Lazzaro | Nominee |
| Top Five Foreign-Language Films | Happy as Lazzaro | Winner |