A young man gradually retreats from reality after his mother falls into a coma.
Acting
De Francesco's physical dissolution—watch him forget how to be human.
Direction
Calogero's refusal to explain, only observe.
Director
Francesco Calogero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Italy's 1990s 'cinema del silenzio' movement, reacting against the excess of 1980s commercial film.
Calogero never directed another feature; this remains his singular statement on filial grief.
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