It's Easier For A Camel

The rich are different, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously observed, to which actress-turned-director and screenwriter Valeria Bruni Tedeschi adds the thought that it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich girl to enter the kingdom of happiness. Her semiautobiographical first feature chronicles the travails of Italian-born Federica (Tedeschi), whose wealthy father (Roberto Herlitzka) moved his family to France when Federica was a child to escape a rash of politically motivated kidnappings back home. Now in her thirties, Federica is consumed with guilt over her unearned good fortune and thinks people can't see past her wealth. She's right, ...