| Small Body | |
| Cinematography: | Mitja Licen |
| Music: | Fredrika Stahl |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
| Runtime: | 89 minutes |
Small Body (Italian: Piccolo corpo) is a 2021 Italian drama film directed by, at her feature film debut.[1] It premiered at the 74th Cannes Film Festival, in the Critics' Week sidebar.[2] [3] It won the European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year.[4]
Agata's baby is stillborn. According to Catholic tradition, its soul is condemned to Limbo. When she hears of a church whose priest has the supernatural power to bring a dead child back to life she ventures on a journey with the child in a coffin on her back.
Small Body has an approval rating of 100% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 16 reviews, and an average rating of 7.8/10.[5] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 77 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generaly favorable reviews".[6]