SCREEN : 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Must Watch - Hungry Hearts

Based on the novel "Il Bambino Indaco" by Marco Franzoso, Hungry Hearts is the story of Jude and Mina, two young people who fall in love after meeting at a Chinese restaurant in New York City. After becoming pregnant, Mina looks for guidance in the form of a psychic that tells her she will be the mother of a baby that will change the world - an “indigo child.” When their son is born, Mina becomes convinced that the outside world will somehow harm him. Jude is then forced to protect his son from Mina’s paranoia while also coming to a startling realization about his own circumstances.
Working his way up the Hollywood ladder with an acclaimed performance in HBO’s Girls and appearances in Frances Ha, Inside Llewyn Davis, and This is Where I Leave You, Adam Driver plays one half of this thrilling and dramatic couple. Driver’s star is currently on the rise as he will next be seen in Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young opposite Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and Martin Scorsese’s seventeenth century drama Silence.
His portrayal of a worried father has already received attention; at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, both he and his costar Alba Rohrwacher won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and Actress for their portrayals of Jude and Mina, respectively.
While the novel takes place in Italy, director Saverio Costanzo places Jude and Mina in New York City, making the dangers Mina perceives for her son all the more palatable to American audiences and mothers alike. An Italian Vanity Fair review of the novel states "Il Bambino Indaco tells us what happens when a woman discovers her inability to be a mother. Marco Franzoso - a man - has described it, mixing tenderness and tension masterfully." Hopefully Costanzo’s adaptation leaves viewers feeling the same, or perhaps worse, as we are forced to watch the actions (and inactions) of Mina and Jude unfold on the big screen.
Hungry Hearts premieres Thursday, April 23rd at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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