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THE DINNER

I NOSTRI RAGAZZI

By Ivano DE MATTEO

Drama - Completed 2014

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

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
- Cast
- Alessandro GASSMAN, Giovanna MEZZOGIORNO, Luigi LO CASCIO, Barbora BOBULOVA, Rosabell LAURENTI SELLERS, Jacopo OLMO ANTINORI
- 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?