THE DINNER

I NOSTRI RAGAZZI

By Ivano DE MATTEO

FILM MOVEMENT - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, North America

Drama - Completed 2014

How well do we really know our children? How well do we know ourselves?

Festivals
& Awards

LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2014
Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days, Official Selection - Label Europa Cinemas
Busan International Film Festival 2014
World Cinema
BFI London Film Festival 2014
Dare
Annecy Cinema Italien 2014
Premio Sergio Leone 2014
Ajaccio Italian Film Festival 2014
Mittel Cinema Fest - Italian Film Festival in Central Europe 2014
Rio De Janeiro International Film Festival 2014
Expectations 2014
Villerupt Italian Film Festival 2014
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ivano DE MATTEO
    • Writer(s)
    • Ivano DE MATTEO, Valentina FERLAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Marco POCCIONI (Rodeo Drive), Marco VALSANIA (Rodeo Drive)
    • Synopsis

    • Two brothers, who have opposite characters and make opposite life choices: Massimo (Alessandro Gassmann) is a trendy lawyer and Paolo (Luigi Lo Cascio) is a paediatrician, their wives are constantly in conflict. They have been meeting once a month for many years in a luxury restaurant just to respect a tradition. Their conversation is always inconsistent: salted anchovies with ricotta and fried vegetables, the most recent French film to come out, the fruity scent of a wine, the latest corrupt politician. But one evening a security camera films a bravado of their respective children and the family’s balance is utterly shattered.
      How will the two men, two families so different, faceup to a tragic event that involves them so closely? Freely inspired by “The Dinner” by Herman Koch, this is a provocative look at the often unseen underside of contemporary bourgeois family life, that poses the questions to us all: How well do we really know our children? How well do we know ourselves?