The Italian filmmaker returns to autofiction with a joyful film, in which his alter ego tries to shoot a film on Italian communism.
At the 76th edition, we have the opportunity to discover the ideology of fiction and non-fiction, of daily existence, between harassment, domination, politics, enlistment for terrorism…etc. The Cannes Film Festival offers a reality in which we live, the humility of being poor but also devoid of humanity. A review in which no one has a say, only to find out what times we live in today, in a world devoid of love, but interested in doing harm.
At almost 70 years old, Nanni Moretti sheds light on the period of communism which moved away from Russian ideology, a topicality that we see today between Russia and Ukraine, but in a light easily accepted given that Italy is a country far from the Balkans.
Since last Wednesday, the race for the Palme d’Or has been in full swing. What he remembered from the competition, gossip, information on the Croisette on May 24.
The 69-year-old Italian filmmaker, who won the Palme d’Or in 2001 with « La chambre du fils » presents this new mise en abyme, which promises to carry its share of nostalgia, on cinema, political commitment and the changing world.
The hero of Towards a Bright Future (« Il Sol Dell’Avvenire ») is called Giovanni, the real first name of Moretti, who interprets his fictional alter ego in a true more « Morettian » style than ever, articulating each syllable as s was taking a diction course. At almost 70 years old, Giovanni is a filmmaker on the verge of burnout. Her daughter fell in love with a Polish man in his 60s. His wife Margherita Buy, wants to leave him and perhaps more serious still, has decided to produce the first feature film of a greenhorn amateur of bloodthirsty thrillers. And the shooting of his new film under the leadership of a scam French producer Mathieu Amalric, histrionic and very funny, turns into a nightmare.
Two more days and it’s the end of the Cannes Film Festival. The Critics’ Week has delivered its first awards, on the competition side, we are already talking about favorites for the Palme d’Or. Among them, the Chinese Wang Bing, the French Justine Triet, the Finn Aki Kaurismaki and above all… the event of the day: Nanni Moretti at the top.
Has Nanni Moretti climbed the steps Towards a bright future?
The Italian director has in any case enchanted the Croisette by offering himself a new role as a filmmaker at work, rather dashing even if somewhat overwhelmed by the working methods of his contemporaries, and whose illusions, sentimental and political, ended up fall one after another. Here is a film by a filmmaker, about cinema, without sentimentality or nostalgia, simply touching and successful.
On the stairs of the festival palace, the film crew danced as if to show that they were ready to fly whatever the result was, a freedom after a period when Italy was communist, they did not lack as red scarves to illustrate the celebration of communism.
Givanie’s role is to record a film, in which he would imagine that everything is true. I tried to talk about the 40 years of marriage but also about the history of the country, an exceptional moment, by describing events but also the life of a director who creates films.
I can talk about myself, how I made the short films in c8, how I deciphered the best comic moments, what I produced 50 years ago, when I was 19, young and eager to discover the world of cinema. Where I was talking about my world and my friends that I know, in a social and political context, of my generation, explaining all this with irony.
When we redirect the script, in general we don’t divide, we don’t separate, everyone has their role to write and the four screenwriters do it together. When we write, we recite each dialogue aloud to understand if the character is going well and if the script is well written.
The script was written before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when the Russian invasion took place in Ukraine it impressed me, it was a coincidence, knowing what we illustrated in the film, images from the time 1956, Soviet tanks in Budapest, it is good, it reminds us of the Russian tanks of 2022 in Ukraine. It has happened to me in the past that the news precedes me and the news follows me.
The character is employed in the film and as young people today do not know what we are talking about and really do not know anything, and Giovani wanted to explain what is the reality today that nobody wants to know anything and nobody is interested in nothing.
An intense moment between the red carpet, the photo shoot and the press conference to discover behind the scenes of the scenario and the film.
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