If you loved As It Is in Heaven, try Baaria
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the cozy, cult, devastating, foreign gem, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to As It Is in Heaven, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
cozycultdevastatingforeign gemslow burn
What Baaria is
Giuseppe Tornatore here attempts the big, multi-generational family drama. It follows Peppino from his 1920s childhood in Sicily through his Communist Party activism and family life. It is, if nothing else, certainly a very long film.

