Directed by Pupi Avati
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Sharon Stone, Cristiana Capotondi, Giovanna Ralli, Cristian Stelluti, Osvaldo Ruggieri
Italy, 2014, 102 min.
O.V. with English subtitles
Davide Bias’ father, Ettore, was a scriptwriter of bush league movies based on bad jokes. Davide is a copywriter whose dream is to write something good and true. He suffers from anxiety and lack of satisfaction and only pills are able to control these feelings. Father and son never understood each other, and probably never really talked. When Ettore dies in a suspicious car accident – seemingly a suicide -, Davide’s life takes an unexpected turn. He leaves Milan, his job, his girlfriend Silvia, and moves in with his mother in Rome. In his mothers’ house his father’s presence, frustrations, secret dreams can still be felt.