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The Parents' Room

Synopsis

In a bedroom, perched on the edge of an unmade bed, a man looks out of a window at the falling snow. A blackbird settles on the windowsill and strikes up a song which comes to form a melody over which the man begins to sing of the murders of his wife and two little children. One by one, his son and daughter appear, and his wife turns, each sings a verse of their own. The man then tells of his own suicide. Finally, the blackbird flies away and the man returns to gazing out of the window.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2021 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere

Details

Year
2021
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
11 min
Format
35mm
Director
Diego Marcon
Producer
Jacqui Davies
Co-Producer
Camilla Romeo
Editor
Diego Marcon
Screenwriter
Diego Marcon
Director of Photography
Pierluigi Laffi
Production Designer
Lorenzo Cianchi
Sound
Federico Chiari
Composer
Federico Chiari
Principal cast
Massimiliano Balduzzi, Chiara Serangeli, Beatrice Giavarini, Huey Lockwood

Genre

Experimental Horror Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi

Categories

Fiction Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Italy co-production

Primitive Film (UK), Incurva (IT), Museo Madre – Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee (IT)

Primitive Film

Jacqui Davies

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