2024 · comedy · supernatural
A World Apart
Directed by Riccardo Milani1h 53m2024
Elementary school teacher Michele Cortese is about to start a whole new life. After 40 years of teaching in the metropolitan Roman jungle, he had to move to a village in Central Italy, to teach in a tiny school with just a few children aged 7-10. Struggling to overcome his urban inadequacy, he finds a friendly face in vice-principal Agnese and gradually manages to fit in, thanks to her and their spirited pupils. As everything seems to be falling into place, unwelcome news comes through: the school has failed to meet its student quota for the next year and will soon be shut for good.
Our read: A World Apart (2024) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded comedy · supernatural entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / supernatural, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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