And 'it arrived in Italian cinemas on film by Alice Rohrwacher, presented in competition at the 71st edition of the Cannes Festival, where he won the Palme d'Or for Best Screenplay, ex aequo with Three Faces in Jafar Panahi.

We immediately accused of furbate happy Lazarus and we regret that the double slip comes from a director who is among the young Italian hopes. There is no comparison with the strict Iranian director who shares the prize with Alice.

But let's get to the story that tells of the young Lazarus, not yet twenty, who lives with his numerous community and works as a farmer to a noblewoman Service. The landowner advantage of unsuspecting and uneducated peasants, forcing them to live as slaves, without them knowing anything about how things outside the country in which they live. By the time the authorities will realize this situation, They will all eventually released, but it will not be easy to adjust to life outside their small world.

It could be a powerful theme ever, metaphor for society of yesterday and today, the power games played by masters, employers work and banks, but also the last century of the history not only of our Italian. Particularly interesting, about that, It is the setting: during the first scenes, turn inside the country cottage with atmosphere that pay homage to the cinema of Ermanno Olmi. and yet, the universality of the subject there elements that refer to the contemporary. This is getting more evident when the police burst into the small world out of time, immediately bringing us to the present day. Everything remains deliberately ambiguous, from the viewpoint of space-time and, together with small features of the characters and of the same Lazarus, It takes on a surreal character, magic, even dream.

And then there's the young Lazarus, played by a newcomer Adriano Tardiolo, always serene, smiling, It never seems to want nothing for himself, ma, Unlike, It seems to live only so others can do good. A sort of saint who does not do miracles and will see in the figure of Tancredi – son of the noble lady she works – his first, real friend. A friend who never stops looking for life.

And so, this complex work of Rohrwacher - made strictly in film – He managed to conquer the audience of Cannes. Why? Well we must remember that the two anticlerical scenes inserted deliberately and inconclusive for storytelling are the audience who also alas impressed the Cannes jury politically correct to direct Cate Blanchett.

There is none like Alice, but such films do not help our film to grow.