A Dinner for Them to Meet (2007)
"La cena per farli conoscere" (original title)

Director:

Pupi Avati

Writer:

Pupi Avati

Stars:

Diego Abatantuono, Vanessa Incontrada, Violante Placido

4 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Diego Abatantuono	...	Sandro Lanza
Vanessa Incontrada	...	Clara Lanza
Violante Placido	...	Betty Lanza
Inés Sastre	...	Ines Lanza
Francesca Neri	...	Alma Kero
Blas Roca-Rey	...	Federico (as Blas Roca Rey)
Fabio Ferrari	...	Matteo
Gianfranco Barra	...	Corrado Baghdikian
Manuela Morabito	...	Giuliana, psichiatra
Renato Cortesi	...	Faliero
Osvaldo Ruggieri	...	padre di Matteo
Marica Pellegrinelli	...	Orietta Boserman
Gaia Zoppi	...	Celestina
Gaston Troiano	...	Ferdinando
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Francesca De Martini	...	zia di Betty

Storyline

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [it]

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

2 February 2007 (Italy)

Also Known As:

A Dinner for Them to Meet

Filming Locations:

Fiumicino Airport, Fiumicino, Lazio, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Duea Film, Medusa Film, Sky

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Color:

Color

User Reviews

A sentimental comedy

Italian Director Pupi Avati works again with Diego Abatuono. The funny comedian has been saved by Avati in 1986, when he starred in Regalo di Natale, in a low career moment. Sandro Lanza is a failed actor and has a role in a televised soap-opera. He never had the great chance of an important movie character, though he was an actor in the most important period of Italian cinema. Three daughters, from different women, take care of him in a sad period of his life. Good performances of the actors, mostly of Abatantuono, who maybe feels this character very personally, because his own career could have been very alike in its failure. Avati talks about Italian cinema's decadence or, maybe, about Italian decadence at all. Unfortunately the movie seems not complete or maybe it doesn't succeed in saying everything the director meant.