Held over! Plays June 26 - July 17
Directed by Nanni Moretti
1993, Italy/France, 100 min
Italian, English & Mandarin with subtitles
Nanni Moretti recounts three entries from his “diary” in this hilarious and intimate self-reflective comedy, which follows the filmmaker’s musing on cinema atop a Vespa, a trip to the Aeolian Islands to work on his new screenplay, and his search for health and wellness after breaking out in a nagging skin rash.
Winner of Best Director at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, Caro Diario is a “heroic tale, told with a child’s wide-eyed wonder” (Film Comment) from a “modern movie man, for whom images have effaced the boundary between life and art” (The New Yorker).
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Reviews
With a seductive rhythm, the film alternates between wry encounters and lovely restful interludes, the latter presented so soothingly that they create a contemplative mood. Beautiful Italian scenery is also among this film's many pleasures.
– Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Magnificent [and] hilarious… a heroic tale, told with a child’s wide-eyed wonder.
– Mary Corliss, Film Comment
Held together by Moretti's wit, his self-effacing personality, and by his singular ability to conjure both joy and sadness out of the surreal.
– Ken Shulman, The International Herald Tribune
