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Article: Comedy, communism, and pastry: an interview with Nanni Moretti. (Italian filmmaker and actor) (Interview)
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- January 1, 1995
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The films of Nanni Moretti, the Italian actor-writer-director, are almost perversely unclassifiable. The fact that Moretti makes comedies that are only intermittently funny, and political films that can never be reduced to doctrinaire platitudes, probably accounts for the fact that he has long been a cult figure in Europe but has, until recently, remained practically unknown in this country. Some critics have maintained that the overweening "Italianness" of Moretti's films rendered them inaccessible to American audiences. Nonetheless, the quasiminimalist approach of films such as Ecce Bombo (1978) and Palombella Rossa (1989), works distinguished by a deliberately fiat ...
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