1993 · comedy · drama
Dear Diary
Directed by Nanni Moretti1h 41m1993
Nanni Moretti recounts in his diary three slice-of-life stories marked by a dry, ironic gaze: in the first, he rides his Vespa through a deserted, sun-drenched summertime Rome; in the second, he visits a reclusive friend on an island, who ropes him into an impromptu journey between islets in search of quiet; and in the last, he finds himself grappling with an unknown illness.
Our read: Dear Diary (1993) 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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