Film Details

A prominent French architect undergoing a personal and professional crisis travels with his equally disenchanted wife to Italy, where they find solace and spiritual renewal thanks to two siblings there and a rejuvenating dose of great Italian architecture. This stylish drama from the American-born French director of The Portuguese Nun is“easily the most astonishing and important movie to emerge from France in quite some time,” according to critic Godfrey Cheshire of RogerEbert.com. “While its style deserves to be called stunningly original and rapturously beautiful, the film is boldest in its artistic and philosophical implications…[It’s] an impassioned and genuinely innovative argument for the coherence and value of life and the redemptive powers of art…Like Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty of two years ago and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida last year, La Sapienza evokes masterpieces of decades past while confidently charting new territory of its own.”