The Days of Abandonment - cinema

directed by Roberto Faenza (Italy, 2005, 96 min.)
followed by an encounter with Matilde Vigneri, Margherita Buy and the director.
The petty meanness lurking behind family ties is explored  through the experience of an abandoned woman, in an intense performance from Margherita Buy, digging deep into the complexity of the human emotional response to a traumatic event and a journey of rebirth transcending her interior disintegration.