Dolce Fine Giornata
Directed by Jacek Borcuch
2019Feature90 minPolandPG
A free-spirited Nobel laureate living in Tuscany speaks out against Europe's rising fear after a terror attack, and is unprepared for the fallout.
Synopsis
Maria Linde, a free-spirited, Jewish Polish Nobel Prize winner, lives in Tuscany surrounded by warmth and chaos in her family’s villa. A loving mother and grandmother, she also fosters a secret flirtation with the much younger Egyptian man who runs a nearby seaside inn. After a terrorist attack in Rome, Maria refuses to succumb to the hysterical fear and anti-immigrant sentiment that quickly emerge, deciding in her acceptance speech of a local honor to boldly decry Europe’s eroding democracy—but she is unprepared for the public and personal havoc her comments wreak.
The director
Jacek Borcuch
Jacek Borcuch is a Polish writer-director and musician whose films include All That I Love. Dolce Fine Giornata, starring Krystyna Janda, premiered at Sundance, where Janda won a Special Jury Award for acting.
