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Les clefs de la maison

Original title: Le chiavi di casa
  • 2004
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 51m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
2.5K
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Les clefs de la maison (2004)
Drama

Meeting his disabled son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.Meeting his disabled son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.Meeting his disabled son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.

  • Director
    • Gianni Amelio
  • Writers
    • Gianni Amelio
    • Sandro Petraglia
    • Stefano Rulli
  • Stars
    • Kim Rossi Stuart
    • Andrea Rossi
    • Charlotte Rampling
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    2.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Gianni Amelio
    • Writers
      • Gianni Amelio
      • Sandro Petraglia
      • Stefano Rulli
    • Stars
      • Kim Rossi Stuart
      • Andrea Rossi
      • Charlotte Rampling
    • 29User reviews
    • 39Critic reviews
    • 74Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 15 wins & 22 nominations total

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    Kim Rossi Stuart
    Kim Rossi Stuart
    • Gianni
    Andrea Rossi
    • Paolo
    Charlotte Rampling
    Charlotte Rampling
    • Nicole
    Alla Faerovich
    • Nadine
    Pierfrancesco Favino
    Pierfrancesco Favino
    • Alberto
    Manuel Katzy
    • Taxi driver
    Michael Weiss
    • Andreas
    Ingrid Appenroth
    • Hospital warden
    Dimitri Süsin
    • Boy watching TV
    Thorsten Schwarz
    • Male nurse
    Eric Neumann
    • Playground boy
    Dirk Zippa
    • Young man on wheelchair
    Barbara Koster-Chari
    • Nurse
    Anita Bardeleben
    • Doctor
    Ralf Schlesener
    • Newspaper seller
    Camilla Erblich
    • Woman on tramway
    Bernd Weikert
    • Policeman
    • Director
      • Gianni Amelio
    • Writers
      • Gianni Amelio
      • Sandro Petraglia
      • Stefano Rulli
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    User reviews29

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    5debbielow69

    greater potential

    This movie could have been extremely heartwarming, considering the handicaps of the young boy and his struggles to be a functioning part of society, along with his relationship with his 'new' dad. I was expecting such tremendous emotion and drama, and the story left me with so many questions about the normalcy of it all. One thing that really disturbed me, and I'm suspecting this to be as a result of it being a foreign film, is that as cheesy as it sometimes may be, the film was sorely lacking background music. That missing element made the experience dry compared to what it could have been. The young boy playing Andrea was absolutely inspiring, though, and I found myself wondering how it must have been for him to memorize lines and follow directions in the making of this movie. Charlotte Rampling performed beautifully and convincingly. The father was just plain beautiful; I had a difficult time figuring out his character. My recommendation for this film is really 50-50.
    michelerealini

    A special road movie

    Gianni (Kim Rossi Stuart) has never seen his son Paolo, who is disabled. But Fate makes them meet, Gianni accompanies him to Germany where the child can follow a new therapy... It is also a trip where the young father tries to catch up with the relationship with his son. In hospital Gianni meets a woman (Charlotte Rampling) who has a also a disabled daughter, a woman which teaches him very much about accepting differences.

    Gianni Amelio doesn't direct a spectacular movie about handicap (it's not like "Rain Man"), he directs a road movie which seems sometimes (from a technical point of view) a documentary. There's not room for too many tears, dramas and moralistic considerations. It's a pretty film which has the goal of showing problems the way they are, without exaggerations. There's much reality and humanity.
    8Rosella28

    Touching story, excellent acting by the disabled son especially.

    We thought this was a touching story of the real tragedy of a parent dealing with the life-long disability, all the more so since this parent had walked away so early in child's life. We were much impressed with Charlotte Rampling, who we have seen in many good roles, who gave a marvelous portrayal of parent who have given her whole life to the care of her own daughter, willingly, but with the admonishment to the younger father in brutal honestly, to be prepared to suffer. We also wonder about her use of languages. Last film we saw she spoke French, and in this one Italian and German. Does she really speak these all, or her words dubbed in? We're glad she is working and always a true professional.
    10Sanou_san

    An emblematic presentation of the most infrequent experiences

    I've got to say that this film had touched me so much in both simple and extraordinary ways. There are lots of drama movies out there whose theme seems to rust off compared to this one, and I proclaim to be heart-touched. Le Chiavi di Casa or also known as The keys to the house, had made the most authentic impact to our modern lives. The story runs with to main characters of Gianni (Kim Rossi Stuart) and Paolo (Andrea Rossi), whose relationship are embraced by new encounter of a father and son relationship. Gianni who haven't met his son since her wife died of giving birth to Paolo had found a chance to finally meet him. Paolo on the other hand who suffered a mildly intricate condition of being handicapped attempts to forge as well a connection with his father he never met before (and I never imagined that Andrea Rossi did really suffered a real life Muscular Dystrophy—which fitted him in the role, and thanks to the part of Gianni Amelio who earned and molded Andrea's confidence). The eloquence of the story showed the archetypal impact between a young father who haven't seen his son and tries to build unyielding relationship with a son by ways of bidding his entire life to the only family he got—Paolo.

    Though the original copy of this movie sold for an expensive rate of price in our place, I would really love to spend my time watching movie with explicit sincerity and magnificence. Le Chiavi de Casa had proved not only my money but as well my time and heart worthwhile.
    7AmyLouise

    A not-so-happy ending?

    Director Gianni Amelio coaxed a wonderful performance from Andrea Rossi in this film - his lines were fed to him by the director, allowing this young non-actor to appear spontaneous. His charm and his stubbornness were powerful and endearing, and it would seem that it was the boy's real character and personality that were being very gently and cleverly allowed to shine.

    Apart from Andrea Rossi, the strength of the film lay with Charlotte Rampling - although her part was a supporting role, her intelligence and dignity made a strong impact, and you wished that she would be there to counsel and guide Gianni through future events that he would perhaps not handle too well. She has matured into a very fine actress indeed, and one hopes that she will get the kind of roles she deserves in the future.

    My first thought was that Kim Rossi-Stuart wasn't a good choice for the lead - good-looking certainly, but way too wooden an actor to carry a role as demanding as that of Gianni. On reflection, however, I wondered if casting an actor who appeared to have very little to give his role emotionally was deliberate, because it wasn't hard to believe that this was a man who deserted his son at his birth. Even when he slowly began to warm to his son, and we knew he desperately wanted to help, he was still awkward as he tried to compensate for his instinctive emotional detachment.

    When he took his son from the hospital - clearly before his round of treatment was completed (this would certainly have to be an ongoing routine for Paolo) - this was not the action of a responsible, loving father but an act of rebellion from an immature man who couldn't, or wouldn't, see that the painful procedures were the only hope for some small improvement in Paolo's condition, and something that the boy himself accepted and participated in, however much he hated it.

    Taking Paolo to Norway to visit his "girlfriend" Kristine was not an act of kindness, but one of insensitivity - in earlier scenes, although Paolo spoke of one day marrying her, he also had all sorts of excuses for not being able to meet her. Clearly, he was able to understand what his father could not - that she may reject him when she realised that he was not like other boys; yet he trusted his father enough to take the chance. It was when Gianni threw away his walking stick that I felt he had made very little progress from the boy who couldn't face up to his responsibilities to his motherless son - he was acting less from a desire to help Paolo walk on his own than he was trying to pretend that the boy's disabilities could be cured by an act of will and that he would one day be more like a "normal" son. This was explored further during the driving scene - having told Nicole earlier that Paolo didn't know how to construct boundaries, he encouraged him to think that he could drive and was then shattered when he realised the extent to which his son could at times fail to recognise the limitations that would always confront him. Was Paolo himself unconsciously trying to teach his father a lesson by behaving in the same irresponsible way that Gianni had been?

    The ending of the film therefore presented us with two possibilities - Gianni's newly-awakened love might lead him to a new sense of maturity and responsibility if he could accept that love was not going to be a miracle cure, or he just might once again abandon his child to others. For Paolo's sake and his father's too, I'd like to think that Gianni would have developed a new perspective on his physical and emotional journey with his difficult and beautiful son.

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    • Trivia
      Andrea Rossi suffers from muscular dystrophy in real life.
    • Connections
      Referenced in The Holiday (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Quanti Anni Hai
      Written by Vasco Rossi

      Performed by Vasco Rossi

      Courtesy of EMI Music Italy S.P.A.

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    • Release date
      • September 15, 2004 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • Germany
      • France
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site (France)
    • Languages
      • Italian
      • German
      • French
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Keys to the House
    • Filming locations
      • Berlin, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Rai Cinema
      • Jean Vigo Italia
      • ACHAB Film
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      • $4,537,451
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 51 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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