Feel My Voice is a true Netflix product, an Italian version of a film that’s already been made in two other languages: The original is La Famille Belier, the French story from 2014. The other is 2021’s CODA, famously the American best picture Oscar winner for that year. Feel My Voice casts Sarah Toscano, the winner of Italian singing-contest show Amici di Maria De Filippi, to play the lead, an aspiring singer who’s the only hearing person in a deaf family. The names, setting and some of the contextual details have been altered, but the story remains pretty much the same. Whether it comes together as well as the other films is the question.
The Gist: Eletta (Toscano) awakens to the sound of a braying donkey. It’s giving birth and in distress. She rouses her family and they rush to the barn. After the ordeal ends, we learn that the
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