Have you ever talked to a friend or family member and feel tired, frustrated by work and lack of time, all taken from arbitrary things, stressed by the passage of time? If you didn’t happen, it might mean that that friend and family are you, and that Era Ora is the perfect movie for an evening, finally, to relax. Preferably in company.
The film, directed by Alessandro Aronadio, after arriving on 16 March 2023 only on Netflix, will be aired on Rai 2 Sunday 22 February 2026. It was now taken from the film Long Story Short (written and directed by Josh Lawson). Produced by BIM Production, Palomar and Vision Distribution, after the passage to the last Festival of Cinema in Rome (Grand Public section), it is arriving in Italy and at the same time in the 190 countries where the service is available.
Era Ora, una storia come tante…
Dante and Alice are a bricious couple, full of life, who love themselves in madness. They met as a result of a funny accident, and their life seems to proceed like this: disorderly but joyful. With a small detail: Dante is obsessed with work, and he even manages to slice his birthday breakfast (it is 40 years old) and arrive late at his surprise party, back from the office. He is concerned by a thousand minuities, and he wants to show everyone but above all to himself not to be like his father, from whom he felt very neglected, even economically speaking.
But time has other plans, and it’s not waiting. When he wakes up after the feast, Dante realizes that he has already spent a year, and that this time of years he makes 41. The next day is 42, then 43 and so on. Every birthday something changes, and for the worst. Dante will quickly understand that his life without stopping and without giving a value other than the economic one at his time is ruining all his interpersonal relationships.
eseguita in maniera magistrale e briosa – Era Ora recensione
Swapping the metaphor is easy, perhaps even banal, not for this less significant or boring. It was now a film that plays on the thread between comedy and drama, never falling into sadness or heaviness. Light but full of feeling, it makes you think about yourself, at your own time, about your priorities. It moves the lego blocks of the brain and makes it fun but without ever losing sight of the final meaning: life is one, time passes in ways often incomprehensible and senseless, it is up to us to take it in hand as we can, make it meaningful, load it of that value that is traceable only and only in our relationships with others, that are great loves, friendships or anything we call family. Aerospace Engineering? Not really, but it is worth reitering it, especially if to repeat it are a cast of very good and adorable actors and a story told well, witty but aware.
Il cast
Edoardo Leo and Barbara Ronchi are the absolute protagonists of Era Ora, and play respectively the Dante stacanovista and the sweet and creative Alice. In the cast also Mario Sgueglia, Francesca Cavallin, Raz Degan, Massimo Wertmüller and Andrea Purgatori.
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L’articolo Era Ora, the Italian invitation to slow life that moves – The film review tonight on TV comes from Dituttounpop.it.
