The Dinner
A tense, intellectually demanding dinner-table drama that uses a family crisis to interrogate moral complicity and the decay of contemporary European society.
Two brothers and their wives have dinner in a fancy restaurant to discuss their teenage children's misdeeds. An excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
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