The Invisible Thread is a 2022 Italian film directed by Marco Simon Puccioni, written by Luca De Bei and Marco Simon Puccioni and starring Filippo Timi, Francesco Scianna and Francesco Gheghi.
A teenage son of two fathers makes a documentary about his parents but is surprised when a real-life plot twist occurs in his family.
Beneath the premise of a good-natured teen (Francesco Gheghi) sticking by his two dads (Francesco Scianna and Flilppo Timi) as an act of infidelity threatens to dissolve their union, there’s a more mean-spirited schtick. “What if guys acted as hysterical and vindictive as the most uncharitable stereotype of a jilted woman?” asks director and cowriter Marco Simon Puccioni as he undercuts the tenderness of the first act’s montage recounting the labor and ardor required for two men to be joint fathers in Italy. The film takes their marriage seriously, spending many of its 110 minutes exploring the legal tangle that ensues when they both pursue custody of their son despite biological parentage being unknown. But it takes potshots at the men themselves, their suit-shredding antics in keeping with a sensibility more retrograde than the espoused pro-LGBT messaging.
OFFICIAL TRAILER
Cast
Filippo Timi as Paolo Ferrari
Francesco Scianna as Simone Lavia
Francesco Gheghi as Leone Ferrari
Giulia Maenza as Anna Del Monte
Jodhi May as Tilly Nolan
Valentina Cervi as Monica Ferrari
Emanuele Maria Di Stefano as Jacopo Venosa
Matteo Oscar Giuggioli as Dario Del Monte
Mauro Conte as Riccardo Morselli
Alessia Giuliani as Elisa Del Monte
Gerald Tyler as Leroy Liotta
Enrico Borello as Receptionist
Gianluca De Marchi as Domenico Moretti
Initial release: 21 February 2022
