Felice, the Alice Rohrwacher’s holy hero

Abstract

Starting from the premise that Lazzaro Felice (2018) by the Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher is born from a vision of the world that has its roots in the Christian tradition and, therefore, is better understood from a religious perspective, we will study the different narrative and aesthetic aspects of the film, focusing on the creation of the central character, Lazarus, who, with a powerful spiritual charge of Christological resonances, is the essential key to the interpretation of the film. However, the religious approach is not limited to his figure, so we will also identify the numerous Christian references (iconographic, sound and narrative) recognizable in the staging and finally, we will discover some fragments of the film which reveals how, the director’s formal choices seek to translate into visual and sound language the presence of the sacred in everyday life.