There Is a Light

Il padre d'Italia (There Is a Light, 2017) is an Italian road drama directed by Fabio Mollo — watch online on iFILM. A chance encounter at a Turin gay club brings together two people with nothing obvious in common: Paolo, a reluctant thirty-year-old selling things he does not care about, and Mia, a backup singer living out of a bag.

Mia is pregnant and does not know who the father is. Together they drive across Italy to find him. Luca Marinelli and Isabella Ragonese are a quietly well-matched pair; the film earns its warmth rather than insisting on it. Mollo keeps the weight on the two people in the car, not on the Italian countryside they pass through. Stream Il padre d'Italia online on iFILM.