http://www.liveforfilms.com <br /><br />Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiveforFilms/<br />Twitter: https://twitter.com/Live_for_Films<br />Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liveforfilms/<br /><br />HAPPY AS LAZZARO will open nationwide on 5 April 2019 following its UK premiere at last year’s London Film Festival. It received its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, where it won Best Screenplay.<br /><br /><br />Following sold out screenings at Glasgow Film Festival; HAPPY AS LAZZARO will receive an additional preview screening at BFI Southbank on 8 March, in line with International Women’s Day<br /><br /> <br /><br />The cast includes newcomers Adriano Tardiolo and Luca Chikovani alongside Agnese Graziani (The Wonders) and Alba Rohrwacher (Hungry Hearts, I Am Love).<br /><br /> <br /><br />The film is a tale of a meeting between Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo), a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi (Luca Chikovani), a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the terrible Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna, the queen of cigarettes. A loyal bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping. This strange and improbable alliance is a revelation for Lazzaro. A friendship so precious that it will travel in time and transport Lazzaro in search of Tancredi. His first time in the big city, Lazzaro is like a fragment of the past lost in the modern world.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Modern Films will release HAPPY AS LAZZARO in the UK and Ireland on 5 April 2019.
