Cortellesi and Mastandrea, we tragicomic parents

- The horror of masked parties, guru pediatricians, poorly available mother-in-law, school chats, crying babies, lost sleep, the division of tasks in couples, in short, the hell of the 'Sons' to grow in the spirit of Mattia Torre, the author of Boris. In fact, his brilliant comedy, in cinemas from 23 January in 400 copies distributed by Vision starring Paola Cortellesi and Valerio Mastandrea, but then signed by Giuseppe Bonito after his death on 19 July 2019.
In 'Figli' the surreal-comic story of Nicola (Mastandrea) and Sara (Cortellesi), a happy couple with a six year old daughter who enters a nightmare with the arrival of Pietro, the second son. Everything changes, one no longer sleeps, old grudges emerge, the in-laws do not collaborate, the babysitters, the right ones, are not found and even friends can do little in the grip of their own situations. In the film, based on the famous monologue 'Children grow old', written for Valerio Mastandrea by Mattia Torre (and collected with six other comic acts in Mondadori's book "In the middle of the sea", many other friends of Mattia Torre also recite: Stefano Fresi, Valerio Aprea, Paolo Calabresi, Andrea Sartoretti, Massimo de Lorenzo, Gianfelice Imparato, Carlo De Ruggeri. Mieli, historical producer and great friend of Mattia who had announced the making of the film during the commemoration evening organized at the Ambra Jovinelli Theater in Rome during the summer. "I miss Torre very much - Giuseppe Bonito explains today in Rome - everything is it was so sudden. Mattia called me and said he needed a support director. I immediately said yes. "And again the director on the spirit of the film:" It is a typical trait of his writing capable of move from reality to surreality, from brazenness to the unconscious and all this with changes of register from comic to tragic ". For Paola Cortellesi the film is not just a story of children: "Of course there is the difficult balance of a couple to maintain in a long relationship, but Figli is above all a work on love. I found myself in many things that happen - adds the actress - because Mattia Torre does not only tell surreal things, but surreal things ". And that the film is certainly not just a way to talk about children is also Mastandrea's opinion: "It doesn't just talk about children - says the actor -, but rather how to resist the shocks of life". Cult character of the film, the one played by Stefano Fresi, a journalist friend of Nicola who lives perpetually whipped by his two sons who rage on his shoulders with their plastic pipes.