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Lauro is a shy and awkward young photographer. He has a secret in his past that has affected his entire life, but he only knows the consequences and cannot identify the cause. However, an irresistible instinct leads him to search for his possible lost brother, the son of a relationship his father may have had with a neighbor. The woman, Margherita, has become a famous painter, and with the excuse of photographing her, Lauro travels to Zafferano, a small Sicilian village. What he discovers will be much more complex than he had imagined.
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Status
Released
Original Language
IT

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.

In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.