An 11-minute Sunday that'll make you hungry, homesick, and question your own family traditions.
One Sunday in a public housing project, an Italian immigrant family. Through the character of the mother, we experience the family's Sunday ritual. More than just this somewhat ancestral ritual, which is still relevant today, we get a glimpse of this Mediterranean culture.
Direction
Observational style lets life unfold without manufactured drama.
Production
Captures 1993 Marseille housing project with unvarnished authenticity.
Director
Mario Caniglia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in La Castellane, one of Marseille's most stigmatized housing projects, yet the film refuses poverty tourism for warmth and specificity.
Mario Caniglia cast his actual family, blurring documentary and home movie in ways that make the mother's performance feel simultaneously performed and painfully real.
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