Those Happy Years
a DANIELE LUCHETTI picture
Synopsis
From the Camera d’Or and Cannes Competition winning director of "DOMANI ACCADRA", "MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD" and "LA NOSTRA VITA"
Rome, the 1970s – Guido is a handsome avant-garde artist rambling around his studio in the company of beautiful young models. His devoted wife, Serena, does her best to support his art but can’t help being jealous and angry. When an attractive middle-aged gallery owner gets Guido the show of his dreams, Serena begins a friendship with her and they go together on a feminist retreat in the South of France. The show panned by the critics and his wife pulling away from him lead Guido to reflect on his failures. All the while, their sons are there to observe and react: Those Happy Years, when they watched their parents finally grow up.
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Press
"A delicate, nuanced film that is unexpectedly moving in its portrait of a young Italian family living through the turbulent, freedom-loving Seventies, Those Happy Years uses ironic distance to talk about very intimate things."
The Hollywood Reporter
"Daniele Luchetti brings his usual mix of warmth, drama and boisterousness to this
Variety
flashback to the roiling Italian 1970s of his youth."
Festivals
& Awards
Bastia Italian Film Festival
BIFEST - Bari International Film Festival
Winner
David di Donatello Awards Nominee
Golden Ciak Awards
Les Arcs European Film Festival
Munich Film Festival
Recife Cine PE Audiovisual Festival
Tokyo International Film Festival
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
Nominee
Ischia Global Film & Music Festival
Winner
Cast & Crew
| Kim Rossi Stuart | |
|---|---|
| Micaela Ramazzotti | |
| Martina Gedeck | |
| Samuel Garofalo | |
| Niccolò Calvagna | |
| Benedetta Buccellato | |
| Pia Engleberth |
| Director | Daniele Luchetti |
|---|---|
| Story and Screenplay | Daniele Luchetti, Stefano Rulli, |
| Caterina Venturini, Sandro Petraglia | |
| Production Organizer | Sandra Bonacchi |
| Producers | Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, |
| Riccardo Tozzi | |
| Executive Producers | Matteo De Laurentiis, Gina Gardini |
| Cinematographer | Claudio Collepiccolo |
| Editors | Francesco Garrone, Mirco Garrone |
| Sound | Maurizio Argentieri, Francesco Cucinelli |
| Music | Franco Piersanti |
| Production Design | Giancarlo Basili |
| Set Decoration | Luana Raso |
| Cotume Design | Maria Rita Barbera |
| Casting | Gianni Costantino, Chiara Polizzi |
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