Five Seconds

“One of Paolo Virzì's best films in over a decade.”

“A story that skilfully blends pain and rebirth.”

“Fatherhood, femininity, and a film full of heart : Paolo Virzì returns to express hope and tenderness with a spirited and unconventional film.”

“Valerio Mastrandrea imbues his Adriano with a rarefied depth, composed of silences, gestures, and isolation. He is very good at making solitude tangible. Also noteworthy is the young Galatea Bellugi as Matilde, spontaneous and authentic, a wonderful female character.”

“A film that returns to the roots of Virzì’s poetics—that ability to observe Italy with tenderness and disenchantment—but it does so with a more intimate tone, shot through with melancholy and a stubborn faith in humanity.”

"Five Seconds is a profound reflection on human relationships, on the fragile balance between trust and fear, pain and strength. A story that celebrates the possibility of starting over, just like nature blooming again after winter.”

“Valerio Mastandrea embodies the protagonist's atrocious bitterness with extraordinary depth and with the right balance and without emphasis, he portrays this father's journey from resignation to rebirth.”

“Five Seconds picks up the thread of “Human Capital” (responsibility, social guilt, class fractures) and intertwines it with the attention to vulnerable bodies and unexpected families of “Like Crazy””

“Virzì left us this way— our hearts still speaking, our bodies unable to answer.”