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Quiet Chaos

Quiet Chaos

(3 stars)19 Mar 2009

FAMILY DRAMA When his wife collapses and dies on their lawn surrounded by chopped melon and a traumatised young daughter, Pietro (Nanni Moretti) is saving an ungrateful woman from drowning. It’s just one of several delicious ironies during a movie in…

Nanni Moretti, writer-director of We Have a Pope - interview

Interview: Nanni Moretti, writer-director of We Have a Pope

Director of moving and downbeat film on Catholic Church

15 Nov 2011

Did you ever think of casting yourself in the lead role of Melville, the newly elected Pope, who suffers a crisis of confidence? When I was still in the initial stages of the script, I was chatting to friends and I told them I was thinking of writing a…

We Have A Pope

We Have A Pope

Light-hearted touches within surprisingly pessimistic vision of Catholic Church system

(4 stars)9 Nov 2011

(tbc) 104mins Although it’s set in the world of heavyweight prize-fighters, it would be cruelly limiting to describe Martin Scorsese’s lacerating study of masculine self-loathing Raging Bull as a film about boxing. Ditto Italian writer-director Nanni…

Nanni Moretti

Nanni Moretti

27 Nov 2008

‘I went to a public reading of the novel Quiet Chaos by the author Sandro Veronesi who I have known for years. Outside the bookshop I happened to bump into a woman from the production company, who told me that they had already bought the rights to turn…

Quiet Chaos

Quiet Chaos

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

DRAMA/ROMANCE Nanni Moretti’s 2001 film The Son’s Room explored a middle-class Italian family’s attempt to cope with the unexpected death of a teenage son. Quiet Chaos, which stars and is co-written by Moretti, but is directed by Antonello Grimaldi…

Days of Glory - interview - Nanni Moretti

The president's man

26 Mar 2007

‘The fact that five years have passed since I made The Son’s Room is partly because I have been involved in the Girotondi, which are grassroots political movements that exist outside the political parties. We were taking a stand against the Berlusconi…

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