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Saturday, 2 January 2010

Mid-August Lunch (2008)

Posted on 09:25 by uthpa
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Italy
Feature Film
Original Title: Pranzo di ferragosto
Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Writers: Gianni Di Gregorio, Simone Riccardini
Cinematographer: Gian Enrico Bianchi
Cast: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis, Marina Cacciotti, Maria Calì, Grazia Cesarini Sforza, Alfonso Santagata, Luigi Marchetti, Marcello Ottolenghi

A greying, middle-aged bachelor, who lives with his elderly widowed mother, finds his flat filled with mischievous, troublesome old women, when he feels obliged to look after the mothers and aunts of two acquaintances, to whom he is financially beholden, over a long weekend, in Di Gregorio’s feather light, charming, and thoroughly authentic feeling little film. Iain.Stott
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