About this Event
Cinema & the Soul
London Christian Film Society presents Happy as Lazzaro (Italy, 2018)
Open to students and young adults (18-35)
What does the Church do with a 'saint' who isn’t pious, isn’t eloquent, and isn’t even particularly aware of being good?
Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro centres on a young man who serves by his very nature: he is found carrying, fetching, giving, yet never asking why he should. Those around him often find it convenient, until it becomes truly irritating. It is a very original story for modern times, with subtle nods to the history of Italian culture, and the history of work and exploitation. Rohrwacher has said that it is in a sense a deliberately "religious" film, yet without attaching itself to any institutions. The protagonist's name (Lazarus) appears to be a deliberate evocation of the line between life and death.
It is a film in which the miraculous arrives without trumpets, as it so often does in the lives of the saints. Rohrwacher's film works in the classic Italian auteur tradition of Olmi and Pasolini, with a tenderness that is unmistakably Franciscan. It leads a humble observation of a world that feeds on the goodness of others.
Join the London Christian Film Society for a screening of this strange, beautiful film, followed by an open conversation on innocence, exploitation and what it means to be “set apart.”
HAPPY AS LAZZARO (Italy, 2018)
A film by Alice Rohrwacher
📍 Sacred Grounds, St Anne’s Church, Soho
📅 Friday 27 November
Doors 6:45 PM
Film starts at 7:00 PM
🎞️ Screening followed by discussions, led by Koinonia (Christian ministry for university students and young professionals)
Cinema & the Soul.
Admission is free, but please do donate what you can to the venue.
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Sacred Grounds, 54 Dean Street, London, United Kingdom
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