Moretti, the sun of the future is shining, Dujardin recounts the days of the Bataclan and 9 other films not to be missed at the cinema and in streaming

Moretti, the sun of the future is shining, Dujardin recounts the days of the Bataclan and 9 other films not to be missed at the cinema and in streaming


THE SUN OF THE FUTURE. In the halls

Nanni Moretti regains his good mood, reflects on the passing of timeon cinema that changes and loses its memory, on bad sequences that need to be cut, on sleeping pills, antidepressants and skin creams, about disobedient actors, elephants and trapeze artists, about love and its mysteries. Quote The sweet life And 8 1/2the dead mother, the most loved songs, from Are just words by Naomi a I want to see you dance of Battiato, Far far by Tenco and The song of lost love by DeAndr. He closes chapters, turns pages with kindness, calls together the friends who accompanied him, from Renzo Piano to Chiara Valerio to Corrado Augiasand then the interpreters who crowded his career, all together in the credits while the band invades the Imperial Forums.
Fellinian, sarcastic, dreamy, anti-platform, anti-mystification and anti-sabot (a tragic point of view), speeding on a scooter in the squares of Rome, sentimentally fragile in the face of loneliness, as always a great devourer of sweets. And as if he were shooting three (and a half) films at the same time: the first, the center of the screenplay written by Moretti with Federica Pontremoli, Valia Santella and Francesca Marciano, on the reflections on the PCI of the Hungarian events in 1956in which the love story at sunset, after forty years together, with the sweet Paola, producer and administrator of that dry heart (Margherita Buy, alter ego of a female image that the real Moretti borrowed from several relationships) and the good relationship with his musician daughter, Emma (Valentina Romani), in love with a sixty-year-old Polish artist (Jerzy Stuhr, director and actor for Wajda and Zanussi).
Finally, here are two more stories forward: first, a lifelong musical with two boys who they share their first kiss at the cinema and they love each other and argue a lot; secondly, a road movie aquatic on a swimmer returning home across several contiguous pools as happened to Burt Lancaster in A naked man by Frank Perry (1968).
The film about the events in Hungary with the tank invasion of the USSR follows the story of Ennio (Silvio Orlando) and Vera (Barbora Bobulova), he secretary of the communist section Antonio Gramsci of Quarticciolo and editor of theUnit, she seamstress and militant. The section hosts a Hungarian circus Budavari which solicits Ennio's conscience to ask for the dissociation of the PCI from the Soviet aggression.
Filming is struggling to proceed: due to the director's perfectionism, but also because the French producer Pierre (Mathieu Amalric) causes disasters and the set stops. In the meantime, Togliatti looks out the window but remains silent while Paola finds Korean funds to continue and goes to the psychoanalyst (Teco Celio) because she wants to find the strength to leave her beloved Giovanni: she doesn't dare tell her, but he is too demanding.
First, however, we have to face the Netflix exam with the managers asking Nanni where is the what the fuck!, the twist, and they continually remind him of the 190 countries in which the streaming giant broadcasts. Cinema within the cinema. Cubed cinema, starting from the avatar Michele Apicella, of which Moretti recites the deprofundisto reach maturity Nanni questioning the bogus film - ferocious of thechild prodigy on duty, produced by Paola, where entertainment violence, therefore unacceptable. Not like in the chapter Do not kill of the Decalogue by Kieslowski where the violence is so explosive as to generate rejection.
I am delicious, Nanni / Giovanni defends himself in front of his family who accuse him of being a bear. In the end, we laugh a lot, we are moved, nostalgia emerges, the old tics remain, the mocking smile. The sun of the future therefore a political, intimate, personal, even bizarre work that will please the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. Last act of a cine-existential first half that vanishes, while the second half, with other rhythms and other gazes, is about to begin.

THE SUN OF THE FUTURE by Nanni Moretti
(Italy-France, 2023, duration 77')
with Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Barbora Bobulova, Mathieu Amalric, Jerzy Stuhr, Elena Lietti
Rating: *** out of 5
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