

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Acting
Moretti's restrained breakdown—no histrionics, just hollowed-out fatherhood.
Direction
Moretti shoots grief like documentary: banal meals, unbearable silence.
Writing
The letter. You'll know. The worst kind of almost-closure.

Director
Nanni Moretti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Moretti won the Palme d'Or but called it 'the film that cost me the most'—he wrote it while processing his own unborn child's death.
The scuba gear becomes a perverse Chekhov's gun: introduced casually, returned in the film's most devastating scene.