The Life Ahead
The Life Ahead is a 2020 Italian drama film directed by Edoardo Ponti, from a screenplay by Ponti and Ugo Chiti. It is the third screen adaptation of the 1975 novel The Life Before Us by Romain Gary. It stars Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye and Abril Zamora, and is set in Bari, Italy.
Plot
Madam Rosa is a former prostitute and Jewish Holocaust survivor who provides a home in her apartment for the children of other "working women" in the port city of Bari, Apulia, Italy. After Momo, a 12-year-old, orphaned, Senegalese immigrant, robs her, Dr. Coen, the boy's foster guardian, who also happens to be Rosa's doctor, brings her stolen items back and makes the boy apologize. Coen offers Rosa money to take in the boy and look after him for a couple of months, and she reluctantly agrees.
More details
author | Edoardo Ponti Ugo Chiti |
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director | Edoardo Ponti |
editor | Jacopo Quadri |
genre | drama |
keywords | apartment building apulia bari build catatonia catatonic concentration camp former prostitute holocaust survivor kick out orphan port city selling drugs stab working women |
musicBy | Gabriel Yared |
producer | Carlo Degli Esposti Jamie Wolf Nicola Serra Regina K. Scully |
publisher | Netflix |