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  • Summary: Broke, and armed with only a glass of wine and a wry sense of humor, middle-aged Gianni resides with his 93-year-old mother in their ancient apartment. The condo debts are mounting, but if Gianni looks after the building manager’s mother during the Pranzo di Ferragosto (Italy’s biggest summer holiday, and the Feast of the Assumption), all will be forgiven. Then the manager also shows up with an auntie, and then a doctor friend appears with his mother in tow... Can Gianni keep four such lively mamas well fed and happy in these cramped quarters? (Zeitgeist Films) Expand
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  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
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  1. Reviewed by: Natasha Senjanovic
    90
    A gem whose intelligent, gentle, deadpan humor is entirely irresistible.
  2. A slender Chekhovian vignette about the joys and regrets of old age and the pleasures of sociability.
  3. Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    60
    Watching this lauded but fatally slight comedy of manners about a middle-aged Italian who finds himself caring for four spunky old dames, it's hard to believe writer, director, and star Gianni Di Gregorio also co-wrote the bloody mafia hit "Gomorrah."

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