1998 · comedy · drama
Aprile
Directed by Nanni Moretti1h 18m1998
Nanni Moretti once again muses on the ebb and flow of life in April 1996, as he is about to become a father for the first time and finds himself unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming general elections, where the left is heading into a rematch against Berlusconi.
Our read: Aprile (1998) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- gentle
- intimate
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