‘The children will grow old’: the monologue of Matthias Tower becomes a film

The monologue recited by Valerio Mastandrea in And then there is Cattelan, exploded on the web. the Children , written by Mattia Torre , told what you feel when you put into the world a son. The fear, the hopes, the loss of sleep, the sense of emptiness when he is away from you, the jealousy. A masterpiece of grace, sensitivity and intelligence, because the Tower, who died in July at age 47, the brilliant author of Boris and the series The vertical line in which he told of his experience in the hospital, the battle against the disease, the hospital as a microcosm, he wrote very well and knew how to filter them with the irony of life. The happiness and the dark areas. That monologue had become the project of a film, who would direct the Tower. He did not have time.