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Lobster Dinner

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Lobster Dinner (Cena d’aragoste)

original title:

Cena d’aragoste

directed by:

Gregorio Franchetti

cast:

Marta Zoffoli, Matteo De Buono, Fanni Wrochna, Edoardo Zuena

screenplay:

Gregorio Franchetti

cinematography:

Ilya Sapeha

editing:

Chiara Dainese, Gregorio Franchetti

set design:

Susanna Della Sala

costume design:

Camilla Giuliani

producer:

Axel Öhman

production:

Gatto Film, Magdalene Films

country:

Italy/USA

year:

2017

film run:

14'14"

format:

colour

status:

Ready (31/05/2017)

festivals & awards:

Left home alone one evening, a 12-year-old boy steals some live lobsters from his parents’ fridge and takes them as a gift to the single working class mother of his school friend, only to claim in their house a place that goes well beyond that of a dinner seat.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
Entirely set during a mundane school-day evening in Rome, Lobster Dinner is about the journey of misunderstandings, betrayals and awakenings of two boys from different social classes suddenly caught at odds in their respective quests for manhood.