Not Of This World (1999) *

Directed by Guiseppe Piccioni. With Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando and Carlina Freschi. An Italian drama about a Catholic novice who finds an abandoned newborn baby while strolling through a park in Milan. She leaves the boy at a local hospital, but quickly gets very attached to him and returns frequently to visit him in the nursery. Too quiet, too reflexive, too coy and too lethargic for its own good. It’s European cinema at its most ponderous.