Hai La Nostra Benedizione

Overview

What seems like a sweet meeting between a guy and his fiancée's parents quickly turns into a twisted deal between a seller and a buyer.

Challenges & Approach

At the end of my Master’s Degree at the “National Film Academy of Bologna”, I put together a troupe made up of former students and current collaborators of my master's program to start a series of film projects. The first one is Hai la nostra benedizione ("You have our blessing"). With this movie, we explored the psychological and moral dynamics hidden behind the apparent normality of family life. We aimed to analyze the psychological dynamics of three characters who, driven by sick and twisted minds, stage a macabre game in which reality is distorted until it becomes unreal. The story revolves around a meeting between a young doctor and his fiancée's parents, initially depicted as a classic family scenario, but soon transforming into a nightmare of madness.

The heart of the film lies in the contrast between the warm welcome of the parents and the darkness lurking behind the walls of their home. The cinematography and set design play a crucial role in building this dichotomy, using closed spaces, soft lighting, and enveloping shadows to enhance the viewer's disorientation. In this context, the house becomes not just a physical space, but a metaphor for the double life the characters lead: a place that appears welcoming from the outside but harbors evil within.

Our goal was to create a growing tension, where the boundary between what is real and what is the product of illusion becomes increasingly thin. The fiancée’s parents, in fact, not only conceal the truth but have built a parallel reality, a world in which the young man is truly their daughter’s fiancé and they are his real parents, as if everything were part of a shared game. This obsessive behavior is rooted in their sick minds, to the point that they begin to believe their own fabrication, creating a condition that also reflects on the "sacred" bond of family.