AMANDA – Review by Liz Braun
For her feature debut, writer/director Carolina Cavalli presents everything you ever wanted to know about human isolation in Amanda, the blackly comic story of one Gen-Z misfit. Amanda (the brilliant Benedetta Porcaroli) is 24 and rootless. She lives in Turin with her wealthy family and has no work or purpose, no real goals or structure to her life and no friends or romantic interests. Sometimes Amanda visits an emaciated horse on what appears to be an abandoned property. She looks online for people to talk to and engages in conversation with the Siri-like persona on her phone.
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