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'Children grow old': Mattia Torre's monologue becomes a film

December 20, 2019

The monologue recited by Valerio Mastandrea to And then there's Cattelan, exploded on the web. Sons, written by Mattia Torre, told what it feels like when you give birth to a child. Fear, hopes, loss of sleep, emptiness when away from you, jealousy. A masterpiece of grace, sensitivity and intelligence, because Torre, who died in July at the age of 47, is the brilliant author of Boris and the series The vertical line in which he recounted his experience in the hospital, the battle against the disease, the hospital as a microcosm, wrote very well and he knew how to filter life with irony. Happiness and the dark areas. That monologue had become a film project, which was supposed to direct Torre. He didn't make it in time.

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Sons he turned it Giuseppe Bonito, 45, who worked with Torre for a long time. "Mattia had called me when he realized that physically it would have been very difficult for him to follow the film," says Bonito. "Then it's all happened so fast. I say this to make a premise to the approach to the script, which like all things written by Mattia, it is a very personal text, there are so many elements of his life, there is his particular touch and it is very difficult to handle.It has the talent to mix reality with the unconscious, at first I was very scared. I really wanted to bring out the style of Mattia ".

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Sons is produced by Lorenzo Mieli is Mario Gianani for Wildside-The Apartment, part of Fremantle, with Vision Distribution that will distribute it in theaters on January 23rd. The protagonists of the film are two fraternal friends of Mattia Torre, Paola Cortellesi is Valerio Mastandrea: They interpret Sara and Nicola, a couple in love and happy, with a six year old daughter. Everything perfect until the second child arrives. In the cast Stefano Fresi, Valerio Aprea, Paolo Calabresi, Andrea Sartoretti, Massimo de Lorenzo, Gianfelice Imparato, Carlo de Ruggeri. "They all wanted to be there, even for a pose" recounts Bonito "was Mattia's daughter Emma, to beat the first take of the film and to shout 'Action'. There is his son Nico. There are some extraordinary scenes, Mattia left us something profound, he has the ability to tell life, he was an incredible mirror. Despite not having children, I understood exactly everything, it was a sort of simulation of 'life with children'. There is everything in what he tells, from fears to the difficulty of finding pasta cooking times ".

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Complice of Torre, Luca Vendruscolo is Giacomo Ciarrapico in Boris, director of the second unit of The vertical line, Bonito confesses that "it was a joy to direct Valerio and Paola, even though at the beginning we all felt a bit orphaned. With them we shared everything, any choice of film. For the rest, nothing else was needed because there it is the grace of Mattia, his curiosity about human beings that belongs to the great ".

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