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La principessa

2025 · 16 min

A quiet, sorrowful slice of life that lingers on fragility and loss, leaving a heavy ache long after its brief runtime.

Directed by: Luca Joe Cucci
Genres: Drama
Starring: Eleonora Haerens, Giuseppe Lo Piccolo

Overview: Principessa is a homeless woman who lives in a dilapidated van in a suburban parking lot. She scrapes together small amounts of money through prostitution, abuses alcohol and drugs, but remains a fragile woman with a good heart. Her sweet but precarious balance is shattered when the “Piccolo Circo” arrives at the place she loves so much: the parking ban, the arrival of the police, the seizure of her vehicle, and the awareness, albeit unclear, that she must leave that maternal womb forever.

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Directed by: Luca Joe Cucci
Genres: Drama
Starring: Eleonora Haerens, Giuseppe Lo Piccolo

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
survival
addiction
class
identity
Places: suburbs
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	4
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Luca Joe Cucci
Written by: Luca Joe Cucci
Starring: Eleonora Haerens, Giuseppe Lo Piccolo
Runtime: 16 min
Country: Italy

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