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Le chiavi di casa (2004) -- Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.

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Director:

Gianni Amelio

Writers:

Giuseppe Pontiggia (novel)
Stefano Rulli (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

10 September 2004 (Italy) more

Genre:

Drama more

Plot:

Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager. full summary | add synopsis

Awards:

10 wins & 14 nominations more

User Comments:

Life is not easy more (24 total)


Cast

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Kim Rossi Stuart ... Gianni

Charlotte Rampling ... Nicole
Andrea Rossi ... Paolo
Alla Faerovich ... Nadine
Pierfrancesco Favino ... Alberto
Manuel Katzy ... Taxi driver
Michael Weiss ... Andreas
Ingrid Appenroth ... Hospital warden
Dimitri Süsin ... Boy watching TV
Thorsten Schwarz ... Male nurse
Eric Neumann ... Playground boy
Dirk Zippa ... Young man on wheelchair
Barbara Koster-Chari ... Nurse
Anita Bardeleben ... Doctor
Ralf Schlesener ... Newspaper seller
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

The Keys to the House (Australia) (Canada: English title) (International: English title) (UK) (USA)
Die Hausschlüssel (Germany)
Les clefs de la maison (France)
The House Keys
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Runtime:

105 min | UK:111 min | Australia:111 min

Country:

Italy | France | Germany

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Brazil:12 (Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival) | Brazil:14 | Germany:o.Al. | Australia:PG | France:U | USA:PG | Italy:T | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | Ireland:PG

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany more

Company:

ACHAB Film more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

This was Italy's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award in 2004. It did not make the final five. more

Soundtrack:

Deus Do Fogo E Da Justiça more


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20 out of 28 people found the following comment useful.
Life is not easy, 29 January 2005
10/10
Author: Paolo A. Gardinali from United States

This is the first Amelio movie to be released in the US, at least in a Film Festival setting, in over ten years since Lamerica. But the director's style is still memorable. The camera scans slowly the lost faces of the actors without pity or shame. There is no plastic, no trinkets, no nudging at the spectator. We are there watching and not, it's not really as straightforward as we'd want it.

As in "Stolen Children" or "Lamerica", the main character ambles on scene, uncertain of his role in the life of others or just very mistaken. It learns--maybe, the hard way, one feeling at the time. Kim Rossi Stuart takes the place of Enrico Lo Verso, with a similar style, eyes lost and the silence prevailing over revelatory dialog, but the star is his son in the movie, Andrea Rossi There are no cheap shot. There is no need to. Piety, compassion come from something deeper, and Amelio definitely gets to the grittier level of human emotion. Charlotte Rampling has an amazing role, as the mother of young handicapped woman and the symbolic chorus for the interior dialog of the protagonist. And the dialog is pure and scary as it can be.

It's refreshing to see such moving work that skillfully avoids all the traps of classic Hollywood tearjerkers. The movie reminded me rather of Kenzaburo Oe's "Teach Us to Outgrow our Madness", but it's actually inspired to Giuseppe Pontiggia's "Nati due Volte" (Born Twice), and Amelio pays homage both to the writer and the book in the course of the movie.

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