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The Dinner (1998)

Directed by Ettore Scola

Overview

An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in—large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single—to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people’s discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff’s petty jealousies and frustrations—until two hours later it’s time for everybody to go home.

Length 126 minutes

Actors

Fanny Ardant | Nadia Carlomagno | Antonio Catania | Francesca d'Aloja | Eleonora Danco | Riccardo Garrone | Vittorio Gassman | Giancarlo Giannini | Marie Gillain | Lea Karen Gramsdorff | Carlo Molfese | Nello Mascia | Adalberto Maria Merli | Sergio Nicolai | Corrado Olmi | Daniela Poggi | Stefania Sandrelli | Giorgio Tirabassi | Rolando Ravello | Eros Pagni | Giorgio Colangeli | Hanja Kochansky | Francesca Rettondini | Gordana Miletić | Ettore Garofolo | Adriana Innocenti | Paolo Merloni | Francesco Siciliano | Venantino Venantini | Mario Patanè | Stefano Antonucci | Walter Lupo | Ana Brigitte Fernandez