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Burning Hearts

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2022 · 117 min Drama Romance
6.6 / 10 · TMDB

Puglia. Burnt by the sun and by hatred, the promontory of Gargano is contested by criminals who seem to come from a remote past governed by the law of the jungle. An archaic land reminiscent of the Far West, in which blood is washed away with blood. An old feud between two rival families is rekindled by a forbidden love: the one between Andrea, reluctant heir of the Malatesta, and Marilena, beautiful wife of the boss of the Camporeale clan. A fatal passion that sets the two clans at war again. But Marilena, banished by the Camporeale and prisoner of the Malatesta, disputed and abused, will oppose a fate already written with a mother’s strength.

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Original Title Ti mangio il cuore
Year 2022
Country Italy
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Pippo Mezzapesa
Runtime 117 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.6/10 (110 votes)

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Pippo Mezzina constructs a narrative of stark contrasts, building an epic, almost western-like saga of blood feuds around an intimate story of love and maternal instinct. The film relies on powerful archetypes to explore how personal desire can detonate the rigid laws of a patriarchal world from within.

What lingers after the final frame is not the violence, but the fierce, transformative power of a woman's defiance against a fate written in stone. The genre expectations are subverted by a profound psychological truth. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Pippo Mezzapesa

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Best viewed late at night, surrendering to its atmosphere of southern gothic and fatal passion.

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