Professor Biondi is a depressed scientist. After his wife's death, he lives isolated from the world in the Nevada desert, near Area 51. He supposedly works on a top-secret project for the US government, but in actuality, he spends his days on the couch, listening to the sound of the Universe. His only contact with the outside world is Stella, who organizes alien-themed weddings for tourists on the prowl for extra-terrestrials. One day the Professor receives a message from Naples: his dying brother is entrusting him with his two children, so that they may live with him in America.
Acting
Mastandrea's deadpan grief is quietly devastating
Cinematography
Nevada emptiness becomes character, not backdrop
Score
Cosmic hums that sell the alien-obsession bit
Director
Paola Randi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Italian cinema's obsession with melancholic men in foreign landscapes continues—Randi gender-flips the classic trope by making the woman the chaotic local and the man the lost outsider.
The Area 51 wedding tourism subplot is oddly real; nearby towns have leaned into alien economies since the 2019 Storm Area 51 meme made it mainstream.
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