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On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.
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"The movie gives us a vivid and ruthless description of the odyssey of a rebel housewife, described with passionate and emotional involvement without giving vent to any sort of conceptualism. This touching story has been inspired by the legend of a mysterious woman who disappeared a long time ago in Lampedusa (an island in the sea of Sicily, the southern point of Europe.). Grazia, the catalyst character of the story, a restless married woman of unusual habits, is considered a nut, an irresponsible person who can't participate fully in the life of society, being forced into total imaginatio..."
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First released in France in January 2003 in only 80 art-house theaters, by word-of-mouth the film became a big hit in the art-house world, and by the third week more copies were printed and it was screened in many more theaters. At the 4th week the movie had over 400.000 tickets sold, and it run a record-long 12 weeks in many art-house theaters. Almost unnoticed in Italy at first in 2002, it was then released again a second time in Italy in 2003.
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On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.