'Amanda' Is a Surreal, Charming Portrait of Loneliness

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'Amanda' Is a Surreal, Charming Portrait of Loneliness
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Benedetta Porcaroli’s performance traverses the grounds of a peculiar friendship that’s as sweet as it is tart.

, the debut feature from Italian writer/director Carolina Cavalli, a 24-year-old girl wears the same outfit every day: a rainbow crochet vest over a schoolgirl uniform.

Porcaroli’s Amanda is deadpan and vulnerable, transforming the film from a story about a vaguely sad rich girl to a strange, surreal, and charming portrait of loneliness in contemporary Italy. At its best, the film is a portrait as sweet and tart as an unripe cherry of unlikely friendship between two complicated young women.

Somebody can say, "What's the problem? You're rich, you're not doing anything from the morning to the night, so what's the problem?" She has a relationship problem, which is something very common during these years. It is getting worse now, but I feel like this generation has this problem relating to other people.

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