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L’Educazione di Irene

A community-service sentence in a psychiatric group messes up the life of a meticulous young woman.

synopsis

Irene, a smart but stiff and precision-obsessed young woman, is sentenced to a year of community service in a psychiatric group. It is there that her rules-centered world made of tables and planning is messed up by Marx’s political rants, Rambo’s paranoia, the Prof’s contentiousness, Angela’s hallucinations and, especially, by Lucio’s emotional fragility. But when Irene clocks out, she can go home and relax a bit, right? Not exactly. Irene has just declined the proposal from her boyfriend, a man as interesting as dunking a biscuit into milk, because “was not part of her agenda yet”; she argues on a daily basis with her dad, a pathetic salesman of super-kitsch bridal gowns. She also has to manage her numb young sister who spends her time in making couples fight each other. Moreover, Irene finds herself involved in the devious plans of the brilliant psychiatric who leads the group. When Irene does not know what to do anymore, she gets help from the five guests of the psychiatric group and begins to feel and see the world from a different point of view.

Director’statement

We chose the dramedy genre to underline differences and similarities between the ordinary world and the world of psychic suffering. This oscillation turns upside-down clichés about “psychos” and also works as a magnifying glass to observe the crazy lives of “normal” people.

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