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Movie – “Mid-August lunch”

In the frame of the Week of Italian Cuisine we propose an exhilarant comedy, “Mid-August Luch” by Gianni de Gregorio, on Tuesday 19th Novemeber 2019 6.30pm at Italian Cultural institute.

English subtitles

PLOT
Gianni, a sixty-year-old man covered in debts, spends his mid-August in a condominium in the scorching Rome with his mother, Donna Valeria, a capricious, oppressive fallen noblewoman he has to take care of. On August 14, in the middle of the summer heat, Alfonso, the condominium administrator, shows up at their door to collect what is due to him, and ends up proposing to Gianni the extinction of all the condominium expenses in exchange for a favor: host the elderly mother, Marina, for the night and the following day of Ferragosto. For a series of unavoidable coincidences and favors, Gianni finds himself forced to take care for a couple of days of mother, of Marina and unexpectedly of two other elderly ladies who plummet at home and who, amid spite and whims, will put a strain on his patience and his hospitality.

Directed by Gianni Di Gregorio
Release: 2008
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 74 minutes