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jekylljuice · 04-01-2008, 02:06 AM

The Caiman

More brilliance from Nanni Moretti, an Italian film-maker whose films I discovered in early 2007 and who's never ceased to enrapture me since. This one deals with the exploits of a very different kind of Italian film-maker, Bruno Bonomo, a once-successful producer of trashy action flicks (all of which starred his wife, Paola), whose career - and personal life - went down the tubes ten years ago, and who stumbles across a potential opportunity to revive his career by assisting a budding young screenwriter with the production of a movie about controversial political figure Silvio Berlusconi. Nanni Moretti himself only plays a small role in this one, and to some extent I did miss his charming onscreen presence throughout, but I did feel that Silvio Orlando gave a fine performance as Bruno nonetheless, and the script and direction were as witty, wry and wonderful, not to mention deliciously understated, as anything else in Nanni's catalogue. Great stuff.

04-01-2008, 02:06 AM	#1413
jekylljuice Executive Weasel Ball jekylljuice was here. Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: the 44th floor (not counting the mezzanine) Posts: 1,568	The Caiman More brilliance from Nanni Moretti, an Italian film-maker whose films I discovered in early 2007 and who's never ceased to enrapture me since. This one deals with the exploits of a very different kind of Italian film-maker, Bruno Bonomo, a once-successful producer of trashy action flicks (all of which starred his wife, Paola), whose career - and personal life - went down the tubes ten years ago, and who stumbles across a potential opportunity to revive his career by assisting a budding young screenwriter with the production of a movie about controversial political figure Silvio Berlusconi. Nanni Moretti himself only plays a small role in this one, and to some extent I did miss his charming onscreen presence throughout, but I did feel that Silvio Orlando gave a fine performance as Bruno nonetheless, and the script and direction were as witty, wry and wonderful, not to mention deliciously understated, as anything else in Nanni's catalogue. Great stuff. __________________ That's it, The End, But you'll get over it, My Friend.