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Nanni Moretti

Director
Forviewers interested in italian auteur cinema, political satire, meta-cinema, and character-driven films blending comedy with discomfort and grief.
23 Reviews 29 Definitions 35 Charts
Drama Comedy Grotesque

The Profile

Nanni Moretti is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor known for combining satire, autobiography and political observation, often centered on neurotic, self-analytical protagonists (including the recurring alter ego Michele Apicella).

Publicly verifiable highlights referenced in the reviews include: "La stanza del figlio" (The Son’s Room, 2001) won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival; Moretti frequently acts in his own films; his cinema is widely associated with self-referential and autobiographical elements and with commentary on Italian society and politics.

Across 23 reviews, Moretti is described as a major Italian (and European) director whose cinema swings between satire, neurosis, self-analysis and political observation. Several reviewers praise his classics (especially "Bianca", "Caro Diario", "Palombella Rossa", "La messa è finita") while others criticize excessive self-referentiality and uneven late-career work (notably "Tre piani"). Recurring themes: alter ego Michele Apicella, bourgeois malaise, the crisis of the left, and the collision between private life and public institutions. His dramas about death and mourning ("La stanza del figlio", "Mia madre") are noted for a more delicate, less sarcastic register. Recent "Il sol dell'avvenire" is seen as a partial return to form, still full of cinema-about-cinema and Moretti-style obsessions.

Notable Quotes

❝ “It’s sad to die without children.”
❝ “I love this bridge. I have to cross it at least twice a day.”
❝ “I can’t do it!”
❝ “We are like others, we are different but we are like others”.
❝ “...in 190 countries of the world!”
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