Aprile

March 13, 20088:30pm

Morreti casts himself, wife and friends in a documentary lampoon about Italian politics. What could be irritatingly self-indulgent turns out to be a funny, charming perspective on Italian life.

Following the general election of 1994, won by the centre-right coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi, Moretti is encouraged by a journalist friend to make a documentary about the current political situation in Italy. Two years pass, another election is held, and Moretti has still made no progress with his documentary. He begins shooting another project, alluded to in Dear Diary, a musical about a Trotskyist pastry chef set in the 1950s, but he becomes disillusioned and is distracted by his wife Silvia’s pregnancy, which preoccupies him more and more.

His son Pietro is born, and the centre-left coalition Ulivo wins the election. Moretti continues to try to shoot his documentary in Venice and Apulia, but the film is never finished. On his 44th birthday he realises that he must stop hesitating and he finally begins shooting his musical in earnest.

‘An absolute delight, my only complaint is that it’s too short.’ Jeff Vorndam, AboutFilm.com


Film Information
Release year: 1998
Running time:   78 mins
Directed by: Nanni Moretti
Language: Italian (English subtitles)
Country: France, Italy
Classification:
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Nanni Moretti,
Silvio Orlando,
Silvia Nono,
Daniele Luchetti

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