THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING

WITH VALERIO MASTANDREA, MICAELA RAMAZZOTTI, STEFANIA SANDRELLI, CLAUDIA PANDOLFI

An ironic and moving drama, set during a politically intense moment of Italy's recent history.
It's a movie about the excessive love of a mother towards her children, of fights and reconciliations, without a nostalgic eye at the past.

 

Summer in Tuscany, 1971. Anna is crowned ‘Queen’ of Livorno’s most famous bath house. Beautiful, vivacious and innocent, she’s unaware of arousing the unwelcome suspicions of her jealous husband Mario, and stoking the hidden embarrassment of her son Bruno. 20 years later, Bruno is persuaded to return to Livorno by his estranged sister Valeria. To help Anna – still a beautiful object of desire despite a terminal illness. And to confront the childhood memories he has tried to erase at all costs. Humiliation. Confusion. Endless wanderings in search of somewhere to live after having been thrown onto the streets by their father. Yet always swept along by Anna’s unshakable optimism.