In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.
Acting
Silvio Orlando's sweaty desperation is practically a fifth element.
Production
Rome as crumbling dust bowl—tourist board's nightmare, cinephile's dream.
Director
Paolo Virzì
Silvio Orlando
Antonio
Monica Bellucci
Valentina
Valerio Mastandrea
Loris
Claudia Pandolfi
Sara
Tommaso Ragno
Alfredo
Sara Serraiocco
Giulia
Max Tortora
Jacolucci
Emma Fasano
Martina
Vinicio Marchioni
Luca
Elena Lietti
Mila
Gabriel Montesi
Valerio
Emanuela Fanelli
Raffaella
Diego Ribon
Prof. Del Vecchio
Andrea Renzi
Il Presidente
Gianni Di Gregorio
Padre di Loris
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Virzì filmed during actual Roman water crises, making some locations temporarily unusable when taps ran dry for real.
The film deliberately echoes 1970s Italian 'commedia all'italiana'—using collective catastrophe to expose class fractures, just with climate change replacing postwar poverty.
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