1989 · comedy · drama
Palombella Rossa
Directed by Nanni Moretti1h 29m1989
Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a crucial water polo match on the eve of election day, he gradually begins to remember his past life, revealing a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors that of Italian communism itself.
Our read: Palombella Rossa (1989) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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- inventive
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