Love and Slaps

La bellezza del somaro
Sergio Castellitto

In a wry, perceptive update of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, a successful architect (Castellitto) and his wife (Laura Morante) meet their daughter’s new boyfriend. Actor Marco Giallini in person on June 2!

DIRECTOR
Sergio Castellitto
YEAR
2010
COUNTRY
Italy
RUNTIME
96 minutes
LANGUAGE
Italian
ORIGINAL TITLE
La bellezza del somaro

Actor Marco Giallini in person on June 2!

Successful architect Marcello (Sergio Castellitto) has just about everything one could desire: a fine career; a beautiful wife, Marina (Laura Morante), who herself is a successful professional; good friends and a marvelous home in the country. Then one weekend, his daughter comes home with a new boyfriend in tow… Working once again with his wife, the hugely popular novelist Margaret Mazzantini, Castellitto offers a wry updating of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, exploring what may be one of our last social taboos in a dissection of Italy’s liberal elite that’s as amusing as it is perceptive.

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