Caro Diario (1993)

Directors

Nanni Moretti

Cast

Nanni Moretti, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Neiwiller, Giovanna Bozzolo, Sebastiano Nardone, Antonio Petrocelli, Giulio Base, Italo Spinelli, Carlo Mazzacurati, Jennifer Beals, Alexandre Rockwell, Raffaella Lebboroni, Marco Paolini, Claudia Della Seta, Lorenzo Alessandri, Conchita Airoldi, Riccardo Zinna, Moni Ovadia, Valerio Magrelli, Sergio Lambiase, Roberto Nobile, Gianni Ferraretto, Pino Gentile, Mario Schiano, Serena Nono, Yu Ming Lun, Yui Chang Pio Tou, Umberto Contarello, Silvana Mangano

The story

Chapter I: In Vespa (On My Vespa) Putting the hot Roman summer to good use, Nanni Moretti dedicates himself to his favorite hobby, riding his Vespa through the streets of the half-deserted city. Here, Moretti lets the landscape inspire his thoughts: he laments the banalization of politics in contemporary Italian cinema, comments on the gentrification of the quarters of Rome, mocks the overzealous critical reception of movies like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and confesses his love for dance caused by the movie Flashdance – later meeting its star Jennifer Beals. Finally, he visits the place in Ostia where Pier Paolo Pasolini was…

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