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The Dew Point (2023)
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Original name: Il punto di rugiada
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
25-year-old carouser Carlo is sentenced to one year of community service after crashing his car while drunk and on cocaine. He has to serve his sentence at the Villa Bianca nursing home, along with other non-violent felons. He initially lives it as yet another nuisance, but spending time with Villa Bianca's residents — especially Dino, a cultured and sarcastic 80-year-old who has attempted suicide several times — will make Carlo change his outlook on the world and on life itself.
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
retirement home, personal growth, redemption, intergenerational friendship, empathy, healing, rehabilitation, compassion, coming of age, guilt, mortality, bittersweet, character study, alcoholism, addiction, accident, forgiveness, culture clash, suicide attempt, privilege, hopes, social commentary, drug use, nostalgia, punishment ...
Time:
2020s, contemporary
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