The Art of Happiness

The Art of Happiness

82 mins | Drama, Animation | Nov. 21, 2013

Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fragments of life, a radio announcer, an old uncle, alternate seats on its bearing, each in its own way, a trace of his brother loved. Stubborn not to go over and get lost in an endless race, Sergio is overwhelmed by memories and the music produced in pairs with Alfredo, which in Buddhism and in its foundations had found the strength to cope with the disease. Those notes that he believed buried and laid to always return overbearing and demanding a soundboard that resonate and express his being sound. Putting his hand on the piano, Sergio Alfredo feel again, giving the past with the present and realizing itself in the feeling.

The Art of Happiness

82 mins | Drama, Animation | Nov. 21, 2013

The Art of Happiness
Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fragments of life, a radio announcer, an old uncle, alternate seats on its bearing, each in its own way, a trace of his brother loved. Stubborn not to go over and get lost in an endless race, Sergio is overwhelmed by memories and the music produced in pairs with Alfredo, which in Buddhism and in its foundations had found the strength to cope with the disease. Those notes that he believed buried and laid to always return overbearing and demanding a soundboard that resonate and express his being sound. Putting his hand on the piano, Sergio Alfredo feel again, giving the past with the present and realizing itself in the feeling.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Big Sur, Mad Entertainment, Rai Cinema
Original title L'arte della felicità
Directors Dario Sansone, Marino Guarnieri, Ivan Cappiello, Alessandro Rak
Writers Paola Tortora, Luciano Stella, Nicola Barile, Alessandro Rak

Cast

Leandro Amato

as Sergio Cometa

Nando Paone

as Alfredo Cometa

Renato Carpentieri

as Uncle Luciano Cometa

Jun Ichikawa

as Antonia

Lucio Allocca

as Dad of Sergio and Alfredo

Silvia Baritzka

as Lariza

Francesca Romana Bergamo

as Radio news

Antonio Brachi

as The gallerist

Iolanda Semez

as Signora Pinotta / Mother of Sergio and Alfredo

Patrizia Di Martino

as Erika / Neapolitan women

Ciro Cesarano

as Nando

Luigi Meola

as Sergio child

Matteo Russo

as Alfredo child

Gennaro Matino

as The pastor

Paola Tortora

as Neapolitan woman from below

Dario Sansone

as Neapolitan man from below

Antonio Funaro

as Radio Taxi

Robert Thurman

as Man in the TV