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Mid-August Lunch

"We live in memories, right Grazia?, What would you do if you had no memories?"

Thanks to "The getaway" ( Dino Risi, 1962) , il ferragosto discovered, the holiday Italian each year commemorates the traditional end of farming for August 15. That same day, wandering around a deserted Rome, the urgent and vital Bruno Cortona (Vittorio Gassman immeasurable ) drags the timid student Roberto Mariani law (Jean-Louis Trintignant ) on a journey convertible end in tragedy ...

Gassman and Trintignant in "Il sorpasso" (Dino Risi, 1962)

The versatile Gianni di Gregorio is the director, co-writer and main actor "ferragosto holiday " (2008), a simple comedy can emerge in our lips a pious smile .

The argument is simple. Gianni is a bachelor who lives in Rome with Valeria (Valeria Franciscis ), her elderly mother. Heavy smoker and devotee of white wine, has accepted his resignation live daily routine. Seems satisfied and happy, but has gradually built up a series of debts to the neighboring community, a commitment which will be forgiven by Alfonso (Alfonso Santagata ), the communal administrator, in exchange for their care Gianni mother Marina (Marina Caccioti ) and Aunt Mary his ( Mary Calì ) during ferragosto.

Gianni shopping at

The plot is still a bit more tangled when Marcello (Marcello Ottolenghi ), doctor and friend of Gianni also requests assumes responsibility for such a particular day of his mother Grazia (Grazia Cesarini Sforza ), the physician is on duty at the hospital and the current caregiver of the elderly has traveled to Romania ...

How any of us would act if, suddenly, we had to attend to 4 elderly? Gianni is an unfortunate, because the old women's health is much better than his own: the doctor has diagnosed hypertension and stable angina .

Valeria's flirtatious grooms every day with great decorum ... Aunt Mary have cerebral arteriosclerosis, but continues to prepare the best Italian baked pasta ... The stubborn Navy flight at night to drink and smoke in bars. The wins bring Gianni gets back home barely, a feat that cost is also a good drunk ... Finally, the fragile Grazia is allergic to lactose, you should take amlodipine to treat your hypertension and domperidone for functional dyspepsia ... Looking

raw material for cooking food ferragosto, with the help of his trusty Viking ( Luigi Marchetti ) Gianni motorcycle travels the streets of the Eternal City semidesert, reminding those other films featuring rides in his day Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in "Roman Holiday" ( William Wyler, 1953) or the emotional Nanni Moretti in "Caro Diario" (1993).




Critics agree in highlighting the kindness with which Gianni di Gregorio portrays the elderly, far from the stereotypes that older people consider a nuisance or a burden.

We see Valerie does not like to imagine the musketeer D'Artagnan as described in its pages Alexandre Dumas, as Grazia recalls with nostalgia the homes that have lived throughout his life, as Tia Maria Gianni helps make dinner or Navy wants to sing a lullaby to her caregiver to sleep ...