Close to Me

Close to Me

2025 · 103 min · IT · 5.8 (55 votes)
Dir. Stefano Sardo · Starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Mariela Garriga, Maria Chiara Giannetta, Paolo Pierobon, Giulio Beranek, Francesco Brandi · Music Francesco Cerasi
RomanceThriller

Luca is a forty-year-old teacher experiencing a relationship crisis with his wife, Sara, who is much wealthier than him. During the lockdown, Luca finds himself a bystander in the life of his new neighbor, Amanda, and decides to bridge the distance between them, with disastrous consequences.

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This feels like a creeping, intimate psychological thriller, steeped in a melancholic tension. It explores the unsettling allure of obsession and the fraught dynamics of desire and consequence within a relationship, unfolding with a deliberate, atmospheric intensity.

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