[Director Moretti] wraps his political agenda with an affecting story about a fading filmmaker whose dreams and beliefs aren't weathering the storms of middle age. If the politics don't get you, the life empathy will.
Overview
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
Director and cast
- Nanni Moretti Director
- Silvio Orlando as Bruno Bonomo
- Margherita Buy as Paola Bonomo
- Jasmine Trinca as Teresa
- Michele Placido as Marco Pulici
- Antonello Grimaldi as Direttore di produzione
- Elio De Capitani as Silvio Berlusconi
- Paolo Sorrentino as il marito di Aidra in "Cataratte"
- Paolo Virzì as dirigente Maoista in "Cataratte"
- Giuliano Montaldo as Franco Caspio
- Tatti Sanguineti as Beppe Savonese, critico cinematografico
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
It's uneven.
A warm family drama pops through the seams of a film within-a-film about Silvio Berlusconi.
A familiarity with the vagaries of Italian politics in the last 20 years is a help, but not a necessity, to appreciate this fascinating at times farcical blend of domestic drama and political rumination.
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