EXCLUSIVE: Italian author and director Gianni Di Gregorio, who received Venice’s Luigi de Laurentiis prize for greatest first movie on the age of 60 in 2008 for breakout comedy Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di Ferragosto), returns to the Lido this 12 months along with his new movie.
Deadline can reveal the trailer for the work, titled Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t (Come ti muovi, sbagli), which can premiere because the closing movie of Venice parallel part Giornate degli Autori.
Di Gregorio stars as a retired professor dedicated to avoiding all of the nuisances of each day life and protecting bother at bay sufficient. At seventy, he has lastly discovered peace: a pleasant house, an honest pension, good mates to joke with, and a girl companion.
This life is turned the wrong way up by the surprising arrival of his daughter, who’s going by a marital disaster, along with her two extremely demanding youngsters in tow.
This surprising cohabitation brings emotional turmoil but additionally a brand new view on love and life for the retiree who had turn out to be caught in his methods.
“This movie is devoted to household—and subsequently to like. To that power that makes us do issues we by no means thought we may do, turning us into tireless staff, but additionally into epic heroes and heroines.” says Di Gregorio of the movie.
Di Gregorio is joined within the solid by Greta Scarano (Suburra), who additionally received reward for her characteristic directorial debut La Vita Da Grandi, because the daughter, and Sport of Thrones star Tom Wlaschiha, as her dishonest husband who walks from Germany to Rome in the hunt for forgiveness.
The characteristic is produced by Angelo Barbagallo beneath the banner of his Bibi Movie with Rai Cinema, and in co-production with French manufacturing firm Les Movies du Poisson. Fandango is dealing with worldwide gross sales and Italian distribution.
