Italian Movie Night at Gallery 40

Non Ti Muovere (Don't Move)

2004 Romance/Drama

Run time: 2h 5m

Director: Sergio Castellitto

**Please note: this film contains intense sexual content, featuring a violent rape scene early in the film that drives the plot. The storyline explores an obsessive, dysfunctional sexual relationship between the main characters, Timoteo and Italia, often depicted in gritty, uncomfortable scenarios.

A rainy day. A fifteen-year old girl brakes, skids, and is thrown off her scooter. The ambulance races towards the hospital. The same hospital where the girl’s father works as a surgeon. Timoteo waits as his colleague performs surgery on his daughter. The terror of this extreme event causes him to cast aside his mask of steadfastness, cynicism, model father and husband, revealing an estranged and violent self. In an attempt to fill the silence of coma with words, death with life, he conducts an imaginary conversation with his daughter in which he reveals a…