Welcome to the South
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...
Our read · Welcome to the South (2010) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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