New Comedy by Gianni Di Gregorio With ‘Game of Thrones’ Actor Tom Wlaschiha, Picked Up by Fandango Sales – First Look Image (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italy’s Fandango Sales has taken world distribution on “Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t,” the new sophisticated comedy by Gianni Di Gregorio whose hit “Mid-August Lunch” recently got an English-language remake.

Fandango is launching sales on the film, which is now in post, at the EFM in Berlin. “Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t” – which is the eclectic director’s fifth feature – turns on a retired professor in his 70s who is leading a serene life in a nice house, with a decent pension, friends to joke around with, and a lady with whom he spends some time.

But then his life gets “turned upside down by the arrival of his daughter, in a marital crisis, and her two unwieldy grandchildren,” says the provided synopsis.

This arrival prompts “New worries, new anxieties, but also new affections,” it adds. “And so begins an adventure into the love lives of others, and into his own,” that will make the protagonist – played, as usual, by Di Gregorio himself (see first-look image above) – realize that “love is always worth experiencing.