A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night during which she discovers herself.
Production
Cinecittà recreated with obsessive period-perfect detail
Acting
Rebecca Antonaci's luminous debut as Mimosa
Costume
1950s couture that wants to be touched through the screen
Director
Saverio Costanzo
Lily James
Josephine Esperanto
Rebecca Antonaci
Mimosa
Joe Keery
Sean Lockwood
Rachel Sennott
Nan Roth
Alba Rohrwacher
Alida Valli
Willem Dafoe
Rufo Priori
Sofia Panizzi
Iris
Giovanni Moschella
Ugo
Enzo Casertano
Rinaldo
Michele Bravi
Singer in Drag
Paul Boche
SS Soldier
Anna Manuelli
Alexia Murray
Josephine Sarta
Benjamin Stender
Stephen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Costanzo explicitly channels Fellini's 'Nights of Cabiria' and 'La Dolce Vita,' even shooting in the actual Cinecittà studios where those classics were born.
The film's structure mirrors a single continuous night of shooting, with Antonaci's performance reportedly done in chronological sequence to capture authentic exhaustion and discovery.
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