A mother who hugs, smiles, sets the table, dances like Raffaella Carra. And he understands even when he doesn’t talk about it. This is Clara from Penelope Cruz in film immensity from Emanuele Crialesewhich returns to Venice 11 years later Silver lion per Land. And he does so with an autobiographical story that takes him back to his childhood in 1970s Rome, where Clara moves into a new home with her husband, Felice, played by Vincenzo Amato, and three children who are almost love bound by her symbiosis.

The marriage, however, collapses, and the fragile family balance is disrupted by the eldest daughter, twelve-year-old Adriana, giving up her feminine identity: she would like to be called Andrea. Crialez stated that Expansion, in theaters September 15, is the film he has always pursued: he recognizes himself in Adrian.

And such an intimate story, mixed with memory, could only blossom thanks to the meeting with Penelope Cruz, who last year won the Volpi Cup with the role of mother in Madres Paralelas Pedro Almodovar.

AT immensity his Clara is still a different archetype, but also a portrait of a woman who, in an era of social conquest and still crystallized female models, is looking for her own recipe for happiness.