The City of the Living

The City of the Living

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Release Date

10/1/2026

Runtime

103 mins

Overview

Luca is twenty-three years old. He lives with an adoptive family who loves him. He moves between the suburbs and the city center with his friends and has a girlfriend with whom he shares a love that is young, yet significant for them both. Luca is searching for his path at an age when everything still feels possible and, at the same time, already lost; in this pursuit, he leads a double life. One night, after a seemingly chance encounter, the trajectory of Luca’s life is shattered, colliding with blind and senseless violence.

Status

Released

Original Language

Italian

Budget

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Revenue

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A young man's ordinary life, caught between possibility and uncertainty, fractures when senseless violence shatters his carefully maintained equilibrium. This is a film about how quickly everything can come apart, and what we carry in the aftermath.

Mood

MelancholicUnsettlingTenseContemplative

Themes

Coming of ageIdentityFamilyIsolation

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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