Little Girl

La pivellina

Austria, Italy

2009

100 Min

Color

1.66:1

Italian

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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DIR Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel

CAST Patrizia Gerardi, Walter Saabel, Tairo Caroli, Asia Crippa

SOUND Tizza Covi

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), Toronto (Discovery), São Paulo, San Francisco (New Directors), Transilvania (Supernova), Melbourne (Next Gen), Berlinale (Generation), BAFICI (Focus Covi & Frimmel)

Synopsis

Abondoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patti, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent container, Patti starts to search for the girl’s mother and gives the girl a new home for an uncertain period of time. —Directors’ Fortnight

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Michael Harbour

16Jan12

"La Pivellina" is a truly charming movie with, unfortunately, a non-ending. A story needs to conclude with an ending or validation of some sort to confirm for the audience that the time they spent was worthwhile. This movie doesn't do that, but it's actually worth watching despite that failure.

Yu La

1Jan12

A story, visibly born from a certain documentary experience of its directors, that has not much to tell (in a narrative sense) but for simplicity and truthfulness, so noteworthy.

Mario Raygoza

7Oct11

Una cinta cuya hechura la dota de una frescura extraordinaria. La cámara en mano hace que uno se sienta parte de la tribu cirquera en donde se centra la película. Lograr transmitir algo cercano a una genuina interacción con el resto de los actores por parte de una niña, de dos a tres años de edad, no es tarea fácil.