Mid-August Lunch (2008)

Original title

Pranzo di ferragosto

Directed by

Gianni Di Gregorio

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

U

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 143 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A middle-aged man living with his elderly mother is asked to look after several other older women during a holiday weekend. The film follows him as he tries to manage their care and the small crises that come up in his apartment.

gentlequietwarmslowdomesticheartfeltunderstatedcomedic

What happens

Mid-August Lunch (originally released as Pranzo di ferragosto) is a 2008 Italian comedy-drama and the directorial debut of Italian actor and screenwriter Gianni Di Gregorio. It was produced by Italian writer-director Matteo Garrone whose 2008 film Gomorrah was co-written by Di Gregorio. It was distributed in the US by Zeitgeist Films. It was remade in 2024 as the Irish film Four Mothers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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