You Came Back

You Came Back (Lasciami andare, 2020) is an Italian supernatural thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Stefano Mordini, it follows Marco (Stefano Accorsi), a Venetian man finally building a new life: a new wife, a baby on the way, the grief slowly fading. Then a stranger knocks.

Years ago Marco's young son died in a particular apartment by the canal. Perla, the woman who lives there now, insists she keeps hearing a child's voice — one that seems to want her own boy. Marco brushes her off, then stops sleeping. Caught between his ex-wife Clara (Valeria Golino) and a fear he can't name, he has to decide whether grief is talking, or something else.

Mordini shoots a wintry, half-empty Venice — fog over the water, not a postcard in sight. This is really a film about mourning wearing a ghost story's coat: it unsettles you through how hard it is to let the dead go, not through jump scares. Stream You Came Back (2020) online on iFILM.