The Art of Happiness (2013) ( L'arte della felicità )

The Art of Happiness (2013) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: L'arte della felicità
Screened, competed or awarded at:
David Donatello Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
81 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Interactive Menu
Music Video
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Alessandro Rak

Written By:
Alessandro Rak

Actors:
Lucio Allocca ..... Padre di Sergio e Alfredo
Leandro Amato ..... Sergio Cometa
Silvia Baritzka ..... Lariza
Francesca Romana Bergamo ..... Voce radiogiornale
Antonio Brachi ..... Maurizio Brachetti
Renato Carpentieri ..... Zio Luciano Cometa
Ciro Cesarano ..... Nando
Antonio Funaro ..... Voce radio taxi
Jun Ichikawa ..... Antonia
Gennaro Matino ..... Himself
Luigi Meola ..... Sergio bambino
Nando Paone ..... Alfredo Cometa
Riccardo Polizzy Carbonelli ..... Speaker
Matteo Russo ..... Alfredo bambino
Dario Sansone ..... Uomo napoletano dal basso
Iolanda Semez ..... Signora Pinotta, Madre di Sergio e Alfredo
Robert Thurman ..... Himself
Paola Tortora ..... Donna napoletana dal basso

Synopsis:

Two brothers. Two continents. Two lives. One single soul. Under a gloomy sky, between apocalyptic premonitions in a Naples at its utmost decay, Sergio, a taxi driver, receives a shocking news. Nothing will be the same as before. Now Sergio looks himself in the mirror and what he sees is a forty-year-old man who has turned his back on music and got lost in the limbo of his city. While a storm is raging outside, a crowd of memories, hopes, regrets and presences begins to populate his cab. Sooner or later the rain will stop and the sky will open up again. And the end will come. Or the music will be back.

The radio channel 'The Art of Joy' is playing at full blast in the car radio, and in his taxi, Sergio meets people who, in spite of adversity, try to see things in a positive light. But nobody makes the effort of asking Sergio. After the death of his older brother, Alfredo, Sergio has decided to isolate himself inside his taxi. Life is an abyss for Sergio: "Are we really the palace of our soul, or are we its prison?" Alfredo had left their promising band ten years earlier to live life as a Tibetan monk. Now, his brother is dead, and it has left a deep, resounding void in Sergio's heart. He ponders about his loss and is frustrated by it, while his customers' babbling is like muzak to his ears.

The adult animated feature The Art of Happiness presents successfully a dramatic family story and its aftermath in the background of a world gone astray.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 11 November, 2014.

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