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Hungry Hearts, a film presented Monday at the ongoing Venice Film Festival, has impressed the audience with a story that reflects the obsessive fears of the present society.
Jude, an American, and Mina, an Italian, meet by chance in New York City. They fall in love and she becomes pregnant. The couple gets married and brand-new life begins.
But since the early months of pregnancy, Mina is convinced that her child will be special and must be protected from the impurity of food and the pollution of the outside world.
Due to his love for Mina, Jude accepts her wife's obsessive fears for some time until he reaches the point where he has to face the terrible truth that his son is not growing and his life is in danger. A covert battle begins between Mina and Jude, leading to a desperate search for a solution.
"I appreciated very much the way the film presented some topics that are often discussed in today's society, from mother-child relation to nutrition," a journalist of Italian cinema magazine Sale della Comunita, Simone Agnetti, told Xinhua.
"Hungry Hearts said something about the fact that we are in a sick society, where any small thing can lead to exaggeration and even madness," said Maria Rosa Degasperi, a cinema expert of a local cinephile association.
"I am a mother too and I know how difficult it is to raise a son in a society made of one-celled families. Large families also used to have problems, but they were able to face them more easily," she added.
Hungry Hearts, in which Alba Rohrwacher and Adam Driver take on the roles of Mina and Jude, is based on an Italian book that impressed Italian director Saverio Costanzo.
"Time passed by and, one day, I began working on the script, following my memories, without rereading the book again. That is how the story accompanied me in the search of what has turned into a very personal tale," he said.
