Review: Alice Rohrwacher's 'Happy as Lazzaro' is an enchanting, surprising Italian fable
A startling rupture occurs almost exactly halfway through "Happy as Lazzaro," a sly enchantment of a movie from the gifted Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher. The picture we thought we were watching - a gentle, observant portrait of a group of farmworkers dwelling somewhere in the Italian countryside - abruptly dissolves and resets itself. A previously unheard narrator begins to speak, telling a story about a hungry old wolf and a world-weary saint who has the power to talk to animals.
How that lupine legend dovetails with the events we've been following, and
