March 2, 2022 at 10:13 am
A small car drives into a glass house wall with a bang. A woman is killed, the driver, the young Andrea, is drunk. From now on there is a burden on the family of a married couple, a momentous burden that will never be shed.
Strengths and weaknesses
The Italian director Nanni Moretti intertwines three floors of a house in Rome, three families and three stories in his new film.
Smaller and larger dramas of everyday life become the foil onto which Moretti projects human strengths but above all weaknesses: the judge who rejects his son, a young mother who is left alone by her partner when their child is born, a Father obsessing over the idea that his young daughter was sexually abused.
“Men are stubborn”
It is mainly men who, in Moretti’s work, do not have their feelings under control, nor their pride nor their sexual desires. And it’s the women who don’t want to put up with it. The men in my film would be stubborn, believing they were on the right side, says Nanni Moretti.
He focuses on the dynamics of family relationships over a period of 15 years, marked by conflicts of loyalty, hurt and remorse, ignorance and despair, the inability to forgive and reconcile, and the loss of people.
Quiet narrative flow
Nanni Moretti sorts the complex emotional states of his characters with narrative caution, shows the vulnerability of his male protagonists and ultimately frees them from the clichés of their deadlocked self-perception. It doesn’t always come on time, but sometimes it doesn’t come too late.