2022 · comedy · history · drama
Strangeness
Directed by Roberto Andò1h 43m2022
During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Our read: Strangeness (2022) reads as a warm, steady, inventive comedy · history · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / history, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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