The Parents' Room

Diego Marcon
2021

A family gathers around a bed to sing a lament to their own deaths, accompanied by a blackbird.

Selected for the 53rd Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, 74th Cannes Film Festival.

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Still from The Parents' Room by Diego Marcon: a figure sitting on the edge of a bed in a dim room, looking at a blackbird on the window sill

Original score by Federico Chiari.

Project supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture, under the Italian Council program (2019).

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