Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe thing I really loved the most about this movie was the title, which is actually a wonderful sentiment that I never really wanted to believe in, but now I am in my dotage I’ll admit has more than a smidgen of truth to it. James is the teenager who is at the receiving end … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis bittersweet comedy from Italian writer/director/actor Gianni Di Gregio is almost a sequel of his sleeper hit of 2008, the truly delightful ‘MID AUGUST LUNCH’. In that film Gianni was a 60-year-old man living alone with his demanding octogenarian tiny mother who finds himself the custodian of several other old ladies who are dumped upon … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOne doesn’t usually associate Italians with restraint, but in this enchanting movie from 2008 that I have just come across, they are just exactly that in the telling of this wee drama about surviving a death in a family. In a bizarre coincidence when Pietro returns from the beach with his brother after they … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe Cantone family pasta business in Italy is ready for some new blood. Dad is getting old and looking to his two grown up sons Antonio and Tommaso to take over so that he can retire. Tommaso wants no part if it as he wants to be a writer and return home to Rome to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn this saga of the Recchi dynasty, who are one of the leading aristocratic families in Milan, we see a way of life that is fading like its dying patriarch as they struggle to come to terms with contemporary society. As wealthy as they are. and waited on hand and foot at every juncture, … Continue reading
