The Complexity of Happiness

The Complexity of Happiness

2015 · 117 min · IT · 6.0 (100 votes)
Dir. Gianni Zanasi · Starring Valerio Mastandrea, Hadas Yaron, Giuseppe Battiston, Filippo De Carli, Maurizio Donadoni, Teco Celio · Music Niccolò Contessa
ComedyDrama

Enrico is a corporate man whose job is to manipulate inexperienced scions into selling their flailing companies. His latest assignment proves more difficult than anticipated—since his target are two young siblings whose parents just died in a car accident.

VIBE

This film feels like a sharp, uncomfortable suit. It’s a cynical look at corporate maneuvering and sudden wealth, underscored by a quiet melancholy. The tone is uneasy, exploring greed and loss with a detached, observational style.

wrymelancholiccynicaluneasysteadycorporate dramacharacter studyarthousegriefgreedmoralityloss
business ethicssudden wealthmanipulativesuitssudden death