Pranzo di Ferragosto (Gianni Di Gregorio, 2008)

Mid-August Lunch, Di Gregorio's debut feature well into middle age, has the director more or less playing himself as he potters about trying to cater for the needs of a home invasion of babbling grannies when he already feels swamped by his nonagenarian mother alone. He turns to frequent liquid refreshment for refuge but there's no getting away from his sprightly housepests.
Nothing of great dramatic import occurs thereafter, but the pleasure of the film is just in its unhurried pace married to a lightly comic and empathetic observation of the mundane foibles and tribulations of real life.

7/10