Synopsis
The story is one of an architect that has lost his inspiration and goes looking for those motivations that pushed him as a youngster to take up the profession. Inspiring him was the baroque movement and all of its artifices: the Guarini in Turin and the Borromini in Rome. The film’s central story ends up being the love story that develops between architecture, artistic inspiration and feelings.
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Cast
- Fabrizio RongioneAlexandre Schmidt
- Christelle ProtAliénor Schmidt
- Ludovico SuccioGoffredo
- Arianna NastroLavinia
- Hervé CompagneMinistre
- Sabine PonteIsabelle
- Clément CogitoreAndré
- Michele FrancoConcierge de la Sapienza
- Chiara MaltaMaria Rosaria Vittori
- Sébastien LaudenbachThomas Gridaine
Recommendations
- 100
RogerEbert.com
Easily the most astonishing and important movie to emerge from France in quite some time. While its style deserves to be called stunningly original and rapturously beautiful, the film is boldest in its artistic and philosophical implications, which pointedly go against many dominant trends of the last half-century. - 90
Variety
The unresolvable tension between logic and feeling animates Eugene Green’s La Sapienza, an exquisite rumination on life, love and art that tickles the heart and mind in equal measure. - 75
Slant Magazine
The mannered direction is at its most effective when it inspires an enhanced sensitivity to the import of every gesture, visual or verbal. - 70
Village Voice
A picture that balances heart and mind with nuance. - 70
The New York Times
The movie is an unapologetically rarefied undertaking and at the same time a gracious and inviting film. And it embodies an elegant and melancholy paradox: What looks like tourism is really the pursuit of truth and beauty, and vice versa. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Talky and cerebral, this theatrical drama juxtaposes space and light and explores ghosts from the past and love in the present. - 70
Los Angeles Times
The pace can feel plodding, but the observations on human frailty and redemption more than make up for it. Despite forays into the head, it's the movie's heart that makes it special. - 60
The Dissolve
While La Sapienza is unsatisfying as drama, it’s frequently beautiful just as a tour through architecturally significant Italian buildings. And it’s intellectually engaging as an elaboration of their larger meaning.
