Claudia is your typical thirtysomething urban woman going through a life crisis. She is a hypochondriac with a stressful job and a boring partner. Her unlikely saviour is none other than her mother, a former hippie who gives her an amulet that belonged to her great-grandmother.
Acting
Antonella Ponziani's perfectly unhinged hypochondriac energy
Direction
Ciccone's sharp eye for absurd Italian family dynamics
Director
Anne Riitta Ciccone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare Italian female-directed comedy tackling millennial malaise before it had a name. Ciccone was ahead of her time.
Macha Méril, who plays the hippie mother, was already a Nouvelle Vague icon from Godard's Une femme mariée.
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