... Crialese focuses on his memories and identity, sometimes with too much emotional distance and a certain harshness, but without sacrificing the intelligence, style, and authenticity of that filial bond. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2024

A somewhat predictable film in its narrative, but the playful and visually beautiful way it chooses to tell its story gives the production a special charm. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 6, 2024

A film that brings to the fore not only gender identity, but also how traditionally established gender roles are reflected. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 5, 2024

Emanuele Crialese’s L’Immensità is an aesthetically magnificent and profoundly moving film that explores the intricacies of human connection, self-discovery, and the search for freedom.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 3, 2024

The work of the children is impeccable, as is that of Penélope [Cruz]. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2024

sits firmly at the intersection of the pain of adolescence, the sliding scale of strength and fragility that is family, and the epiphanic moment of self-actualization

| Jul 12, 2024

Cruz is almost unnaturally luminous as a struggling but free-spirited matriarch in this Italian family drama that's at times dark, surreal, vibrant, and heart-wrenching.

| Mar 12, 2024

Emanuele Crialese’s autobiographical tale of growing up as a trans boy in early-70s Italy features a powerhouse performance from Penélope Cruz (right up there with her work in Ferrari) and musical flights of fancy alongside a powerful coming-of-age tale.

| Dec 20, 2023

Stop to think about it and L’Immensita is fundamentally quite bleak, but it wears a delightfully cheerful face.

| Sep 26, 2023

Melodrama is not a pejorative but dishonest movies like L’immensità add to its bad reputation.

| Sep 22, 2023

Like all memoirs of childhood, L’immensita wanders, seeking to fit the messiness of real life into cinematic form. However, Crialese leaves you feeling a real sense of knowing these characters, and in turn feeling closer to the struggles they represent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2023

Crialese’s film doesn’t always hit the mark. It’s a little slow, a tad unsure of itself. The performances, however, are on another level.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2023

There is a vitality and a quiet defiance to this kind of filmmaking that is difficult to resist.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2023

A visually, aesthetically and emotionally dynamic story that captures the immensity of living.

| Aug 12, 2023

The story fails to accumulate power as it goes on, but it has lots of endearing scenes, including a few fantasy sequences set to blazing Italian pop songs from the period.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2023

Clara has echoes of the glamorous but “unhinged” Aunt Patrizia from Paolo Sorrentino’s similar The Hand of God. Both women are cursed with beauty in a society that aggressively fetishises it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2023

Emanuele Crialese’s latest, L’immensità, is an oddity. It’s perfectly formed, yet still feels as if its final reel went missing. Its title -- usually translated as “infinity” -- is typical of this enigmatic quality.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2023

L’immensità is anchored to a tougher emotional baseline by young female actor Luana Giuliani as Andrea, perfectly capturing a mix of vulnerability and bolshie sullenness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2023

Would like to see more from Crialese, but maybe with a subject he feels more comfortable dealing with.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2023

Cruz injects a proper dose of old-school movie glamour into this otherwise harsh tale of family dysfunction in 1970s Rome.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2023