The Guest Room (film)

{{Infobox film

| name = The Guest Room

| image = La Stanza (aka The Guest Room) (film).jpg

| caption = Film poster

| native_name = {{infobox name module|it|La stanza}}

| director = Stefano Lodovichi

| producer = Andrea Occhipinti

| writer = Stefano Lodovichi

| starring = {{plainlist|

}}

| music = Giorgio Giampà

| cinematography = Timoty Aliprandi

| editing = Roberto Di Tanna

| distributor = Amazon Prime Video

| released = {{Film date|2021|1|4|df=y}}

| runtime = 86 minutes

| country = Italy

| language = Italian

| budget =

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The Guest Room ({{langx|it|La stanza}}) is a 2021 Italian thriller-drama film directed by Stefano Lodovichi.{{Cite news|url=https://pro.festivalscope.com/film/the-guest-room|title=The Guest Room|work=Festival Scope|access-date=10 January 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmitalia.org/it/film/146544/|title=La stanza (The Guest Room)|work=Film Italia|language=it|accessdate=10 January 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://blog.screenweek.it/2021/01/la-stanza-la-recensione-di-roberto-recchioni-763420.php/|title=La stanza: la recensione di Roberto Recchioni|author=Roberto Recchioni|work=Screenweek|date=7 January 2021|access-date=10 January 2021|language=it}} Produced by Lucky Red, the film was distributed on the Prime Video platform starting 4 January 2021. Outside Italy it was distributed by the same platform under the title The Guest Room.{{Cite web |title=La stanza - 2021 - film usciti 2000 - 2021 - film & docu |url=https://filmitalia.org/it/film/121/146544/ |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=Filmitalia}}

Production

During the lockdown imposed by the Italian government due to the COVID-19 pandemic, director Stefano Lodovichi has developed the intention to shoot a film on the phenomenon of hikikomori, boys who voluntarily choose to shut themselves up in their room without leaving it for any reason. The film should have been a documentary however, going on with the writing of the work, the director preferred to create a fictional story that dealt with the subject in such a way as to identify the reasons for this social phenomenon in the stimuli received within a family today.{{Cite web |title=La stanza {{!}} La recensione del film di Stefano Lodovichi (esclusiva Amazon) |url=https://www.ilcineocchio.it/cinema/la-stanza-la-recensione-del-film-di-stefano-lodovichi/ |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=Il Cineocchio |language=it-IT}} The choice to set the film entirely inside a house is functional in addressing these issues. Filming took place during the lockdown, for two weeks.{{Cite web |title=La stanza (2021), la recensione: il thriller di Stefano Lodovichi su Prime Video è una bella sorpresa |url=https://www.silenzioinsala.com/blog/post/111656/la-stanza-2021-recensione-thriller-stefano-lodovichi-prime-video-e-una-bella-sorpresa |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=SilenzioinSala.com - Serie Tv, Film, Recensioni, Approfondimenti |language=it}}

Cast

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