Nanni Moretti
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But Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre does have the same bones, if a different skin, as countryman Federico Fellini’s 8½, still the point of comparison (and Mount Olympus) for movies about moviemaking.
It’s difficult for an expressionistic Italian film about a director experiencing an existential crisis to not evoke 8½ to some extent, but Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre is its own lovely meditation on art and life.
Films about directors enduring mini-meltdowns – from Federico Fellini’s 8½ to Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories – are nothing new.
There are obvious echoes of Fellini’s “8½” in Nanni Moretti’s “Mia Madre,” in which film director Margherita (Margherita Buy) struggles to complete her latest picture—a drama about labor unrest at a family factory recently sold to an American entrepreneur who intends to lay off a large part of the workforce—while contending with the illness of her mother Ada (Giulia Lazzarini), a former schoolteacher whose cardiac problems have forced her into the hospital.
The travails of Italian filmmakers has a rich screen lineage, stretching back to Federico Fellini's 8½, but the existential angst here is easily divined.