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Small Body [Plays 5/14 at 7 p.m. and 5/17 at 4:30 p.m. as well as virtually as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] When a distraught, heartbroken, Italian Catholic housewife (Celeste Cescutti), who is married to an apathetic fisherman (Denis Corbatto), gives birth in 1900s to a stillborn daughter who will remain in purgatory limbo due to not being baptized in Laura Samani's award-winning, moving, heart-wrenching, unpredictable, 89-minute, 2021 film, she makes a perilous journey and bargains with a blue-eyed thief (Ondina Quadri) to accompany her to a mysterious recluse (Anna Pia Bernardis) at mountain sanctuary in northeastern Italy who can perform miracles to briefly bring the infant to life in order to take one breath, be baptized, and save her soul.
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