A Five Star Life

This is your journey. The path is up to you.

Directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi

Produced by Augustus Color, Bianca Film

A contemplative drama about a solitary woman's existential reckoning when her carefully curated life of luxury and isolation collapses, forcing her to seek authentic meaning and connection.

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea, who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.