Will arrive in theaters on October 17, 2025 For youthe film directed by Alessandro Aronadio who brings Mattia Piccolo’s true story to the big screen, an 11 -year -old boy who took care of his father, Paolo, hit by early Alzheimer.
The film, produced by Piperfilm, Lunga Film and Alea Film in collaboration with Netflix, features Edoardo Leo and Javier Francesco Leoni protagonists, in the roles of dad and son respectively, and tells a relationship that goes beyond memory, highlighting the strength of family love.
The true story of Mattia and Paolo
Mattia, originally from Concordia Sagittarius, in the province of Venice, was appointed standard bearer of the Republic by President Sergio Mattarella in 2021 for the love and dedication with which he takes care of his father, who just more than forty years old began to lose pieces of his memory. The boy’s story inspired the film, which shows how roles within a family can reversing: it is the son that becomes support and guide for the parent.
Edoardo Leo struggling with a very deep story
Edoardo Leo, Paolo’s interpreter, explained how delicate and intense the process was. Usually I look at making real stories, he was unable to say no to a wonderful love story on the contrary, of a son who cares a father while slowly losing his memory.
A film that not only tells the disease, but invites you to reflect on the precious time we have next to the loved ones and which unfortunately is not infinite and could abruptly end at any moment, for one reason or for another.
The actor studied the story through interviews and the book ONE TIME SMALL by Serenella Antoniazzi, avoiding to confront the family directly before filming so as not to risk transforming real history into a simple imitation.
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Parents can also show themselves vulnerable
For you Explore the everyday life shared between father and son: laughter, silences full of meaning and moments of fragility that become a source of growth. Edoardo Leo stressed that the film teaches to recognize vulnerability as strength.
Even if it may seem counterproductive, in fact, the myth of parents must be dismantled as “superheroes” at any cost. It is important to be able to say to your children “I’m not fine“Or“I am afraid“, Showing himself as human beings with difficulties and fragility and not as invincible creatures.
The pain of seeing who loves to vanish
A film, therefore, which undoubtedly will affect many people in their hearts who have to do every day with this disease so difficult and evidence. A film that will make you cry, move, laugh and reflect those who know what it means to fight against all this. Seeing a loved one, who until recently seemed – in fact – invincible, slowly disappear before their eyes is one of the most painful experiences that exist.
Alzheimer not only erases memories, but fragmented the identity, leaving those who witness impotent in the face of profound changes. We find ourselves, as Simone Cristicchi was well told at the Sanremo Festival, to be parents of their parents, to take care of them just as they did with us as children, as if the roles were inverted. Observe a parent “go away” day after day destroys you in the soul, but at the same time makes you find a love, patience and a dedication that you perhaps did not know you had.
Looking at a loved one to lose pieces of oneself is a heartbreaking and almost unreal experience. The brain, guardian of memories, becomes an unstable territory where every memory can disappear, yet love remains, invisible but powerful. Mattia’s story reminds me that time with our loved ones is limited and precious, and that care, attention and daily presence become acts of courage and generosity.
Alzheimer challenges us to live fully every moment, to celebrate those sprays of memory that still resist, learning to see beauty even in shared silences. For all these reasons For you It is not only a film about the disease, but a universal story about the fragility and strength of family ties. He celebrates the ability of a normal boy to face an extraordinary test and invites all of us to reflect on how important it is to love, support and appreciate those next to us, before time escapes us away forever.
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