Kidz

Directed by Director's notes
  • Giuseppe Bonito
Directed by
  • Giuseppe Bonito
Year
  • N/A
Length
  • 97 min.
Year
  • N/A
Length
  • 97 min.
Cast
  • Paola Cortellesi
  • Valerio Mastandrea
  • Stefano Fresi
  • Valerio Aprea
  • Paolo Calabresi
  • Andrea Sartoretti
 
  • Carlo De Ruggieri
  • Massimo De Lorenzo
  • Betti Pedrazzi
  • Gianfelice Imparato
  • Giorgio Barchiesi
  • Cristina Pellegrino
Synopsis

Children make you old, but then again, your heart has never been so big.
Sara (Paola Cortellesi) and Nicola (Valerio Mastandrea) are married and in love.
They have a 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and a happy life. The arrival of their second child, Pietro, disrupts the balance of the entire family, leading to tragicomic situations. Extravagant grandparents, friends on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and improbable babysitters will not be of help to them. Between moments of happiness and situations of despair, will Sara and Nicola manage to endure and stay together?

Director's notes
  • "Figli" (Kidz) is a film by Mattia Torre.

    This premise seems necessary for me to recount my approach to directing the film after Mattia's premature passing.

    I say "a film by" and not simply "a film written by" because I knew Mattia well and I knew how much personal experience was in this script. The film is a distillation, first and foremost, of his life, but, in my opinion, it transcends this private sphere to become a mirror of all our lives.

    Existence turned upside down by the arrival of a child, the anxiety of raising them, the feeling of not being able to cope, the difficulty in accepting the small and enormous changes that life presents to Sara and Nicola (the couple played by Paola Cortellesi and Valerio Mastandrea) – all of this is constantly examined through the ironic magnifying glass of comedy and was already contained in a nutshell in the monologue "I figli invecchiano" (Children make you old) from which the film draws inspiration.

    "Kidz” is the comical and moving story of a couple, of two people who love each other and try to withstand the shockwave of parenthood in a chaotic time and an increasingly hostile country.

    In this film, the comedic register and deep analysis merge; reality, the perception of reality, and the subconscious are intertwined, sometimes even in the same situation, with a nonchalance and apparent lightness that only great authors possess.
Directed by
  • GIUSEPPE BONITO
A film by
  • MATTIA TORRE
Story and screenplay
  • MATTIA TORRE
Produced by
  • WILDSIDE and THE APARTMENT
A production
  • VISION DISTRIBUTION
  • WILDSIDE
  • THE APARTMENT
In collaboration with
  • SKY
In collaboration with
  • AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
Executive producer
  • ELENA RECCHIA
  • executive co-producer FULVIO ROSSI
Delegate Producer
  • VALENTINA AVENIA
Editing
  • GIOGIÒ FRANCHINI
Scenography
  • MARTA MAFFUCCI
Director of photography
  • ROBERTO FORZA
Costumes
  • CHIARA FERRANTINI
Original score
  • GIULIANO TAVIANI and CARMELO TRAVIA
Sound
  • FILIPPO PORCARI
Assistant Director
  • ARIANNA DELL’ARTI
Casting
  • GABRIELLA GIANNATTASIO
Production supervisor
  • DANIELE PLATANIA
Distributed by
  • VISION DISTRIBUTION
Director's notes
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"Figli" (Kidz) is a film by Mattia Torre.

This premise seems necessary for me to recount my approach to directing the film after Mattia's premature passing.

I say "a film by" and not simply "a film written by" because I knew Mattia well and I knew how much personal experience was in this script. The film is a distillation, first and foremost, of his life, but, in my opinion, it transcends this private sphere to become a mirror of all our lives.

Existence turned upside down by the arrival of a child, the anxiety of raising them, the feeling of not being able to cope, the difficulty in accepting the small and enormous changes that life presents to Sara and Nicola (the couple played by Paola Cortellesi and Valerio Mastandrea) – all of this is constantly examined through the ironic magnifying glass of comedy and was already contained in a nutshell in the monologue "I figli invecchiano" (Children make you old) from which the film draws inspiration.

"Kidz” is the comical and moving story of a couple, of two people who love each other and try to withstand the shockwave of parenthood in a chaotic time and an increasingly hostile country.

In this film, the comedic register and deep analysis merge; reality, the perception of reality, and the subconscious are intertwined, sometimes even in the same situation, with a nonchalance and apparent lightness that only great authors possess.