Lidia Vitale

In this Covid-era Italian thriller, Roxanne, a cold middle-aged pipe organ restorer, battles to suppress her obsessive attraction to her new young and mute assistant.

Based on the New York Times bestselling novel, THE DINNER turns an ordinary meal among family into a taut morality play as the limits of polite society are tested and two brothers discover just how little they know about each other. When one’s wife sees video of a brutal attack on a homeless woman, she worries it may be their children who are involved in the gruesome assault. Their fragile balancing act of respectability and class now shattered, the two families navigate the repercussions of this senseless assault, revealing in the process the skewed priorities and moral shortcomings of their privileged, insulated perspectives. Official Selection - Venice Film Festival

In the summer heat of the Tuscan countryside, a late-blooming 19-year-old faces the true nature of her body, past and sexual identity.