Fai bei sogni (2016)
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Bérénice Bejo, Valério Mastandrea, Guido Caprino, Fabrizio Gifuni, Roberto Herlitzka, Miriam Leone, Barbara Ronchi
A boy grows into a journalist while trying to understand his mother’s early disappearance.
The story
After his mother dies when he is nine, Massimo Gramellini grows up through childhood friendships and eventually becomes a sports journalist, then a war correspondent. Even as his career advances, he remains unable to make sense of his mother’s disappearance. Convinced that his intense love for her prevents him from loving anyone else, he continues searching for an explanation across the decades. The story follows this unresolved question through thirty years of his life, as Massimo tries to understand what happened and how it shaped his emotional life.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
This is an adaptation of an autobiographical account that tells the story of 30 years in the life of Massimo Gramellini. After his mother dies when he is 9, and through his childhood friendships, he becomes a sports journalist and then a war correspondent. Until the age of 40, he tries to understand why and how his mother disappeared. Convinced that he cannot love because he loved his mother too much, he eventually finds an emotionally balanced life after discovering the truth (his mother committed suicide) and giving it an unexpected meaning.
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