In Italian cinemas from 22 March, A dream called Florida It is the latest film by independent filmmaker Sean Baker, which premiered at Turin Film Festival 2017 and he has seen the candidacy of Willem Dafoe for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Moonie, Scotty and Jancey are three children six years living in Florida, at the gates of Disneyland, but in a quite area peripheral and abandoned, together with their respective mothers. For them, life is not easy, but yet, with their children's eyes, able to see the beauty in everything, passing one of the happiest summers of their lives. The young mother Moonie, Halley, however, in order to be able to pay the small room that has rented in a residence together with daughter, He lives on the border between legality and crime. This, obviously, present heavy consequences.

Halfway between a truffautiano movies and a Larry Clark film, This valuable work of Baker tells the bleak outskirts US through children's eyes, making everything incredibly joyful, colored, live as perhaps it was never. Even the residences are represented the same way as cozy cottages or, even better, veritable enchanted houses, with their pastel colors and their scales are much remember the labyrinths of amusement park.

The residence where he lives together with Moonie Halley mother, in particular, It represented as a sort of Dantesque, with people living on the margins of society, but with a sort of guardian angel - played by the great Willem Dafoe in the residence of the overseer role himself - who watches over them and is ready to solve, often with a resolute face and patronizing, their every problem.

And then there were these: the children, always ready to make the most of their days, content with little and have fun even if you do and they may never be able to go to the nearby Disneyland. A life, their, made of laughter and easy jokes, in which they are mothers (fathers are absent) to manage their daily lives, whose serenity it can only be undermined by the authorities, with their cynicism and their rules that often go against common sense.

A real gem right from Turin Film Festival, This film by Sean Baker. A bittersweet film, we hope, no means pass away unnoticed.

marina fears