L'Amore Molesto | B3 Film Festival

Director: Mario Martone.
Delia returns to Naples to investigate the mysterious death of her mother, Amalia, uncovering dark truths about her family and gradually identifying more with her mother, which gives her a new sense of belonging and inner strength.
Fokus Italien/ Focus Italy.

Amalia, a woman about 60 years old, separated from her impoverished husband who makes a living painting seascapes and gypsies for the market-stalls in the outskirts of Naples, is discovered dead in the sea, wearing only a bra of an expensive designer brand, too elegant for her meagre finances to permit.
Her daughter, Delia, who moved away to Rome a long time before, comes back to Naples and starts investigating. She tries to reconstruct the last moments of her mother's life, looking back at the existence tormented by her husband's jealousy and encountering ambiguous and taciturn men who live in a violent world of power abused: Amalia's presumed lover and his son, Delia's childhood playmate; her uncle Filippo; and finally her father, living alone in their old house in the suburbs.
Gradually Delia, who as a child had unjustly accused her mother of having an extra-marital affair, identifies herself more and more with her mother.
Delia goes back to Rome with the questions about her moth...

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