I honestly don't know what to write about this film for it seemed like a lucid dream and that's the beauty of Italian neorealism. In <i>Happy as Lazzaro</i> you can smell good people, you can trust wolves, you can take the celestial music with yourself wherever you go and you can believe that there's empathy left in this world. Alice Rohrwacher's latest work is an instant classic that feels timeless in itself and in the history of cinema. To say that the movie is merely about the monstrous rise of capitalism in the modern world is belittling the many other aspects that the plot deals with. It's about exchanging something small with even less, it's about responding to exploitation with empathy and it's about <i>Lazzaro</i>, a martyr soul trapped inside the body of a hardworking servant. This movie is magical as much as it's real. It's funny as much as it's heartbreaking and the image of a wolf swimming against the current will stay with you forever. <b>× Best Line: </b>He smells something he has never smelled before and he stops. It was the smell... of a good man.