EXCLUSIVE: Italian author and director Gianni Di Gregorio, who gained Venice’s Luigi de Laurentiis prize for finest 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 together 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 is able to 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 every day life and maintaining bother at bay sufficient. At seventy, he has lastly discovered peace: a pleasant house, a good pension, good pals 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 means of a marital disaster, together with her two extremely demanding youngsters in tow.
This surprising cohabitation brings emotional turmoil but in addition 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 due to this fact to like. To that power that makes us do issues we by no means thought we may do, turning us into tireless employees, but in addition into epic heroes and heroines.” says Di Gregorio of the movie.
Di Gregorio is joined within the forged by Greta Scarano (Suburra), who additionally gained reward for her function directorial debut La Vita Da Grandi, because the daughter, and Recreation of Thrones star Tom Wlaschiha, as her dishonest husband who walks from Germany to Rome seeking forgiveness.
The function 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 gross sales.
