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Let’s clarify one thing right away, because in a few days the public will find out for themselves: Mass is over, of the many comedies that the previous four films had Nani Moretti, he had nothing left. To present it, his writer-translatoralways young even though he has been working in the world of film for almost ten years, this was said to be the first press conference in his career. Not without first showing journalists – correctly (“otherwise what are we talking about?”) – the film.
Moretti she was no longer Michele. Michele «youth of the seventies» by I am an autarch and from Ecce Bomboa director who hates compromise Sweet dreamsprofessor of White. He became Don Giulio. A priest. But the call is always the same, even if radicalized. «Caring for others», says Moretti, «relating to others, being kind to them, accepting them as they are, and being able to change something in others as well as oneself».
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Could it be that his vocation was to spy on other people’s lives, to play in classifying their happiness and unhappiness, to give himself the right not to interfere: a “vocation” that had previously been carried out harshly and that would eventually find full legitimacy in the priest’s character? But it’s pretty clear Moretti do not give up ennobling your character by speaking, regarding relationships with others, about “the contrast between who you are and what you want to be.”
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So did his don Giulio, sure to do good, like his predecessor Whitespying on and persecuting his old friends, reunited after a long absence from the city, where he became the village parish priest. None of them have gone through the last ten years unscathed: some have decided to change religions and some have experienced terrorism, some no longer want to see anyone and others, like Don Giuliodecided to break off a long-standing engagement to live alone and had an abortion.
Moretti He says that they are not representative characters, that their choice to isolate themselves, so radical, does not correspond to a reality created by greater cynicism and shortcuts. The reality, in short, is worse. And then Moretti also says that, if anything, this is “subconsciously a film of this time, in a relaxed way”, because “the activity doesn’t interest me”. It’s true, but isn’t a terrorist friend who feels like someone else’s victim, a friend who throws a stone and then withdraws his hand, “surrendering” to the current events?
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“My job,” he answered Moretti, «this happens through the rejection of what the public expects, of what the public expects; My terrorists are not part of the three categories, which I don’t even want to mention, which are the journalistic jargon that divides terrorists; it feels right to me to place those who have made choices like this among the friends who bring their problems and unhappiness to the pastor.”
Nanni Moretti: “I changed my mind about ‘Ecce Bombo’. It’s an honor to tell the story of a generation”
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Moretti’s hard work, although less fiery than before, remains a topic of conversation cinema crisis. He said about himself: «I was lucky enough to be able to make the films I wanted and according to my wishes», and that should come as no surprise other than his work producer Achille Manzotti do what all producers should do: welcome those who submit proposals. Screening subjects without bias should be the rule, not the exception. Regarding other directors and the world of cinema in general, he disapproved of “the development of a pathetic necessity into a virtue”, repeating, for example in an intervention published by this newspaper on ninety years of cinema, “that we are at a time when it first happened, that the prospects of the picture, thanks to TV, were brilliant. But no, it is not true: cinema was beautiful but now it is no longer there.”
And finally, Moretti he could not help but blame “the suffering of the so-called international product”, with “everything being flattened and flattened”, with “the need to please everyone”, with the claim to know what the public wants. «I don’t believe in “operations”: you have to do what you believe in and take risks. As a viewer before as a writer, I don’t like “good” movies that entertain.” Among those who shared on the set Mass is over Don Giulio’s pathos should at least be mentioned Enrica Maria Modugno, Marco Messeri, And Margarita Lozano in the role of beloved mother.
