Corpo Celeste

13-year old Marta struggles to fit in in her new home in southern Italy, as she tests the boundaries of an unfamiliar city and the catechism of the Catholic church in this critically-acclaimed debut from writer/director Alice Rohrwacher.

While her loving but worn-out mother toils away at an industrial bakery, Marta's only source of socialisation is the church where she is told to attend preparatory classes for her confirmation. But the doctrines of Roman Catholicism offer little in terms of life lessons or consolation, and she quickly sees through the hypocrisy of the priest, who cares mostly about status. Marta forges her own way of the cross, which turns out to have much less to do with God than with her own climb towards adulthood.

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