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
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni
Laura Morante
Paola
Jasmine Trinca
Irene
Giuseppe Sanfelice
Andrea
Silvio Orlando
Oscar - a Patient
Stefano Accorsi
Tommaso - a Patient
Claudia Della Seta
Raffaella - a Patient
Eleonora Danco
a Patient
Sofia Vigliar
Arianna
Renato Scarpa
Headmaster
Roberto Nobile
Priest
Paolo De Vita
Luciano's Father
Roberto De Francesco
Record Store Clerk
Claudio Santamaria
Dive Shop Clerk
Antonio Petrocelli
Enrico
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.
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