The American Backyard (2025)
L'orto americano
A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the American Midwest to write his first novel, next to her elderly mother's house—separated by a grim garden.
- Date of release
- 2025-03-06
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (52)
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery
- Director
- Pupi Avati
Casting
- Filippo Scotti — Lui
- Rita Tushingham — Flora
- Roberto De Francesco — Emilio Zagatto
- Armando De Ceccon — Glauco Zagotto
- Chiara Caselli — Doris
- Massimo Bonetti — Il presidente della Corte d'Assise
- Morena Gentile — Arianna
- Mildred Gustafsson — Barbara
- Romano Reggiani — P.M.
- Robert Madison — Maggiore Capland
- Patrizio Pelizzi — Giudice della Corte d'Assise
- Cesare Cremonini — Ugo Oste
Interesting facts
The American Backyard is a 2024 Italian gothic horror film written and directed by Pupi Avati, based on his 2023 novel of the same name. It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 7 September 2024 as the festival's closing film.
Production
Regarding the macabre crimes in his film, Avati stated, "I didn't invent anything. These are stories that happened from the Monster of Florence to now. It's the least inventive and most realistic part. I'm more interested in the psychological and psychiatric part. Mine is a story of enormous and extreme loneliness.
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