Honey

Streaming video - 2013

In her debut as a director, actress Valeria Golino (*Rain Man*) has made a powerful drama about an unusual job. Irene (Jasmine Trinca) lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she's a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate to help terminally ill people to die with dignity. One day she supplies a new client named Grimaldi (Carlo Cecchi) with a fatal dose, only to find out he's perfectly healthy but tired of life. Irene is determined not to be responsible for his suicide. From this point on, Irene and Grimaldi are unwillingly locked in an intense and moving relationship which will change Irene's life forever. Winner of the Prize of... the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention and nominated for the Golden Camera and the Un Certain Regard Award at the **Cannes Film Festival**. Winner of Best Actress (Jasmine Trinca) and Best First Feature at the **Golden Globes, Italy**. *"The title character of HONEY is a fascinating and complex figure, and Jasmine Trinca inhabits the role with a detached intensity that's thoroughly compelling." - Sheri Linden, **Los Angeles Times*** more