Nineteen

Nineteen-year-old Leonardo (a remarkable Manfredi Marini) is eager to leave home and his native Sicily behind, and strikes out for bustling London, where a business degree awaits him. But, finding that he doesn’t feel a connection to the city nor his studies, he heads back to Siena, with a mind to study Italian literature instead. There, he quickly falls in love with the classics – even as he struggles with academia’s rigidity and self-sabotages every romantic interaction. Don’t expect a neat coming-of-age arc from this bold and spirited debut from Giovanni Tortorici, in which star Marini seems wholly at ease, balancing youthful charm and adolescent acrimony.

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