The Hidden Child

With its story of a cultured professor forced out of reclusion after providing refuge for a wayward youth, The Hidden Child recalls Luchino Visconti’s 1974 drama Conversation Piece. Like that film, Roberto Andò’s adaptation of his own novel takes place mostly in interiors. Set in Naples, it sees piano teacher Gabriele (Silvio Orlando) take in Ciro (Giuseppe Pirozzi), a street-wise 10 year old who’s on the run after he was involved in an incident which hospitalised the mother of a local mob boss.