Giovanna Mezzogiorno

In the early 1910s, Ida Dalser fell for the future Italian leader Benito Mussolini, supported him through unemployment, married him, and bore his son. Losing touch during World War I, they meet again in a hospital, where she also discovers he had married another woman in the meantime.

A labyrinthian, erotic mystery draws a picture of Naples, a city suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, love and violence.

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

Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.