Feeling Better

"Feeling Better" (Nonostante, 2025) is an Italian drama-fantasy you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Valerio Mastandrea. He also stars as a man who is physically recovering — and has decided he prefers staying in the ward.

The hospital is quiet. No one needs anything from him there. That arrangement ends when Dolores Fonzi's character arrives: furious at the situation, allergic to the informal rules of patient life, unwilling to wait. She wants to leave healthy or not at all. He was done making decisions; she makes nothing but. What Mastandrea the director does — quietly, without underlining it — is let the collision between these two open up what both have been avoiding, including a fantasy layer the film never fully explains. That unexplained quality is a deliberate choice, and it pays off. Stream "Feeling Better" (2025) online on iFILM.