Holly (Benedetta Porcaroli), a troubled young woman, is persuaded by 7-year-old Arabella (Lucrezia Guglielmino) that she, Arabella, is a younger version of Holly who needs saving — when, in fact, Arabella just wants to run away to punish her father ( Chris Pine ) for not buying her tacos in the fey comedy-drama The Kidnapping of Arabella ( Il rapimento di Arabella ).

Partly shot in and around the Veneto region, this is the sort of quirky road movie Italian audiences usually love (see Dino Risi’s 1962 Il sorpasso for the one that set the template). It’s therefore likely to prove a real local crowd-pleaser when it debuts in Venice ’s Horizons sidebar. Whether it has enough charm to bewitch non-Italian audiences seems less certain, even given the presence of everyone’s favorite Ame

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