Feeling Better

A gentle, bittersweet drift through a liminal hospital world, where quiet humour and sudden longing make you ponder what it means to truly feel alive.

Directed by

Valerio Mastandrea

Genres

Drama, Fantasy

Starring

Valerio Mastandrea, Dolores Fonzi, Lino Musella

Overview

A man spends peacefully his days in hospital without too many worries. He has been hospitalized for a while but that condition seems like the best way to live his life, safe from everything and everyone, without responsibilities and problems of any kind. It feels really good in there and even if some of his ward companions feel trapped, for them he can also feel free like nowhere else. That precious routine runs smoothly until a new person is admitted to the same ward. She is a restless, angry companion, she accepts nothing of that condition, especially the unwritten rules. She is not willing to wait, she wants to leave that place better or even worse. She wants to live as she should or die, as happens to those who end up in there. He is overwhelmed by that fury, first trying to defend himself and then accepting something incomprehensible. That encounter will help him accept that if you choose to truly face your heart and your emotions, there is no possible repair.

How it feels

Melancholic, warm, whimsical and tense. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Isolation, love, death, freedom

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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