Four Mothers review – canny crowd-pleaser

Four Mothers review – canny crowd-pleaser

Here’s an unexpected remake. Back in 2008, the Italian writer/director-star Gianni Di Gregorio – think Nanni Moretti, with fewer neuroses – enjoyed a pan-European matinee hit with Mid-August Lunch, a gentle-to-negligible comedy about a fiftysomething bachelor (played by Di Gregorio himself) obliged to attend not just his own aged mother but the mothers of several contemporaries. As its title hinted, this was a light repast of a film, though it t…