Tonight at 21:15, (Italy time, 3:15 pm in New York), I Nostri Ragazzi (The Dinner), based on the book
by Herman Koch.
For those of you that don’t need subtitles and, like me, have only access to Rai international through their cable provider, here’s a great chance to catch a lot of good movies.
Tonight (or rather, this afternoon in the USA) Rai 3 is showing one of my very favorites, I Nostri Ragazzi (The Dinner) from director Ivano De Matteo.
READ MY INTERVIEW WITH IVANO DE MATTEO, ONE COOL GUY
Starring Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessandro Gassman, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, and Barbora Bobulova, this is a movie that actually improves a book. In the book, a major part of the dialogue takes place over the course of one unpleasant evening, but De Matteo’s movie’s more natural plot progression and the changing settings in the movie are more natural and less claustrophobic. De Matteo ultimately “fixes” all the problems of the book, makes it more human and less excessively theatrical.
When two brothers, more for appearance sake than anything else, get together with wives that hate each other for a monthly dinner, it’s not fun for anybody but it’s just something one does. The monotony of the family tradition might have continued forever had it not been for something their kids got involved in, something worse than anyone could have expected.
Remember, I Nostri Ragazzi can also be streamed, with subtitles, with Netflix.
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