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Director's Statement
In LA STANZA DEL FIGLIO, I felt the urgent need to relate this pain, the death of a loved one, the different ways in which those close to the victim react to his death. I really felt an important need to make this story into a film. I have never felt so involved in the feelings of a film as in this case. This had never happened to me before.
I had already written the treatment for the film after DEAR DIARY. Where does it come from? Partly due to the fact that as time goes on, one starts to think more and more about death. It is not connected at all to my cancer because at that time I was never afraid of dying. I just haven't had time to make this film up until now. It concerns the death of others. How does one react to the death of a loved one? What is life like after the death of another person? As one grows older, one starts to think more and more about death and so, naturally it's a fear that I have tried to confront by directing a film about it.
So I had the treatment after DEAR DIARY. But at that point in time, at the end of 1995, something distanced me from it. I was expecting a child and, quite frankly, it didn't think it seemed right, to continue writing and then make a film about the death of a child during Silvia's pregnancy or during the first few months of this child's life. I couldn't do it. I didn't want to either. So I put the treatment of LA STANZA DEL FIGLIO to one side knowing that, whatever happened, this was the film I would make later on. Once I had completed APRILE, I started to write the script with two other people: one was Heidrun Schleef,a screenplay writer, and the other was Linda Ferri, an author.