La solitudine dei numeri primi

Italia / Italy 2010, 35 mm, 118′
Drawn by the homonym novel of Paolo Giordano, La solitudine dei numeri primi narrates the lives of Alice and Mattia, both with traumas from childhood on their shoulder.
The lived pain allows the two young people to meet and recognize each other as similar, but the discomfort is the driving force of their existences; they fail, even if similar, to overthrow the entirely barrier of loneliness that separates them from the world and from themselves, from what could be if only they succeeded in tearing the veil that blunts their souls. Just like the prime numbers – divisible only by one and themselves – are and feel lonely and incomprehensible to others.