Gianni Di Gregorio – MRQE

Cittadini del Mondo

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Three Italian retirees embark on a journey to find a new country to live in.

Buoni a nulla

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Easygoing Gianni looks forward to retirement – until he is informed that a change in the law obliges him to work three more years. Faced with the outrageous possibility of having to do a full day’s work, he sets about finding a way to achieve a quiet life

The Salt of Life

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gianni is sixty. He is retired but has not become lazy for all that. In fact he is a helpful fellow who gives a hand to all those who need one: shopping for his wife, walking the pretty neighbor’s dog, and so on. Everybody likes Gianni, but is it for the right reasons? Doesn’t his wife profit by the situation (she still works so it is only logical that Gianni do all the chores)? Isn’t he subject to the excruciating whims of his rich mother?… Sure, everybody LIKES Gianni, but who LOVES him? Agreed, being kind to them, he is the ladies pet, but he does not attract them anymore. That is why, when his macho lawyer friend Alfonso blames him for not having young mistresses “like every other senior Italian male”, Gianni, who is beginning to ask himself questions about what it is like to become old, starts chasing dames.

Pranzo di ferragosto

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the increasingly frequent quiet sessions at the local tavern. As an Oriental saying goes, ‘Moments of crisis are moments of opportunities’. These appear during the celebration of the holiday of Ferragosto on 15 August. That’s when everybody leaves town to have fun. Opportunity knocks on Gianni’s door in the most unexpected way.