Caterina in the Big City
“Sometimes you just want to fit in... or not.”
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When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.
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A tender, sometimes funny, look at navigating the treacherous waters of middle school in a new city. It captures the universal pangs of trying to find your place and your people amidst social divides.
awkwardwistfulhopefulcharmingsteadydramedyslice-of-lifeEuropean cinemafitting inidentitycoming-of-ageclass
school friendrome, italymiddle schoolchorussocial lifefirst kissoverbearing fathermoving to a citypolitical humordramedyfitting in
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