After the death of her husband Fausto, Stella decides to return to the house by the lake where she was born and where twenty years earlier she knew him, remaining conquered by the melancholy.
Acting
Licia Maglietta carries grief with devastating restraint.
Cinematography
The lake becomes a character—misty, mournful, magnetic.
Director
Susanna Tamaro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Susanna Tamaro was already Italy's queen of emotional devastation via her novel 'Follow Your Heart'—this film extends her fixation on women processing loss through landscape.
Licia Maglietta and Tamaro had previously collaborated on the equally weepy 'The Star Maker'—their shorthand for silent suffering is almost telepathic here.
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