
Cosi
6.1/10
Rating
102 min
Runtime
1996
Release Year
Mark Joffe
Director
Cast
Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Aden Young
Quick Synopsis
Lewis, a young amateur theater director in Sydney, takes a job with a government program aimed at rehabilitating mentally ill patients at a local institution. He plans to direct a play, but one of the patients insists on staging Mozart's opera Cosi Fan Tutte, even though none of the patients can sing or speak Italian. As they work through the challenges of this ambitious project, a series of humorous and chaotic events unfold, ultimately bringing the patients and Lewis closer together in ways they did not expect.
Detailed Synopsis of Cosi
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients, who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart, despite the fact that none of the patients can sing or speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.



