The vastly multi-talented actor-writer-director Nanni Moretti is at times compared to Woody Allen for justifiable reasons, his wry whimsical movies, like Woody’s, generous gentle satires, observing on the human condition. In his films, he’s a character, playing different versions of himself. His La stanza del figlio (The Son's Room) won the 2001 Palme d'Or at Cannes. Caos Calmo in 2008 was up for 14 Italian Oscars.
In Caos Calmo (which he also co-wrote), his character idles days away on a park bench within a Roman square, trying to move on, numbly iterating lists of airlines companies I’ve flown, things I didn’t know about my wife, places I’ll never return to….as the chaos of several lives swirls round the chaos enveloping him.
A heads-up: in what is otherwise a totally accessible film for all ages, a sex scene between two actors whose combined age must be almost 100, steams up the screen. Rufus Wainwright and Radiohead adorn the soundtrack..
Our Comedy Nest discussion, after the screening of Caos Calmo will be moderated by Afra Botteri, one of MILR’s most perceptive movie mavens. Anyone privileged enough to have sat in on her analyses of Scorsese’s Raging Bull and Godard’s Le Mépris will know we’re in for a treat. The movie runs 1:45, and so discussion should start at about 2 pm.
In Caos Calmo (which he also co-wrote), his character idles days away on a park bench within a Roman square, trying to move on, numbly iterating lists of airlines companies I’ve flown, things I didn’t know about my wife, places I’ll never return to….as the chaos of several lives swirls round the chaos enveloping him.
A heads-up: in what is otherwise a totally accessible film for all ages, a sex scene between two actors whose combined age must be almost 100, steams up the screen. Rufus Wainwright and Radiohead adorn the soundtrack..
Our Comedy Nest discussion, after the screening of Caos Calmo will be moderated by Afra Botteri, one of MILR’s most perceptive movie mavens. Anyone privileged enough to have sat in on her analyses of Scorsese’s Raging Bull and Godard’s Le Mépris will know we’re in for a treat. The movie runs 1:45, and so discussion should start at about 2 pm.
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