If Life Gives You Lemons

"With its attention to detail when it comes to depicting Southern Italian life, including the carefully observed Neapolitan dialect, which sharply separates the narrative from its northern peers, If Life Gives You Lemons is a deeply intimate but sombre film, which feels like a genuinely personal work."

"[Q]uietly effective.... Landi's cinematography is appropriately unsentimental, filling the wide screen with dark pavements and chipped concrete buildings. But D'Emilo finds colors in the character's emotions..."