1978 · comedy · drama
Ecce Bombo
Directed by Nanni Moretti1h 43m1978
Four friends, former 1968 student protesters who have checked out of politics and struggle to come to terms with the present, try self-criticism to figure out what to do with themselves, only to end up doing what they do best: sinking into endless talk without ever reaching a conclusion.
Our read: Ecce Bombo (1978) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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