[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.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
15 Jun 2007
rotten:
It's uneven.
– Dave Calhoun,
Time Out,
28 Oct 2006
fresh:
A warm family drama pops through the seams of a film within-a-film about Silvio Berlusconi.
– Duane Byrge,
Hollywood Reporter,
22 May 2006
fresh:
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.