From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.
Acting
Edoardo Gabbriellini's face does ten years of aging in one look.
Direction
Virzì turns an oil refinery into pure melancholic beauty.
Director
Paolo Virzì
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ovosodo (literally 'hard-boiled egg') is Livornese slang for someone stubborn — fitting for a city known for leftist resistance and biting humor.
Paolo Virzì cast many actual Livorno residents, including his own mother in a small role. The refinery scenes weren't sets — that's the real ENI plant looming over the city.
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