CINÉ-CLUB MENDOIS : APRILE

Italy–France 1998, 1 hr 18 mins, comedy-drama directed by Nanni Moretti, starring Nanni Moretti, Silvia Nono and Silvio Orlando.

Three years in the life of Nanni Moretti, a citizen and filmmaker concerned about his country’s political situation, who is planning to make a musical about a Trotskyist pastry chef and expectant father anxious about fatherhood.
Nanni Moretti blurs the lines between narrative and personal confession.
Little Pietro is indeed his son; his questions as a bewildered citizen and an intoxicated father, and his creative hesitations, are his own.
Anxious, exasperated, funny and tender, he takes the art of revealing himself without laying himself bare to the extreme, and plays with this false intimacy with great self-deprecation.
He draws from this everyday narrative treasures of whimsy, irony and imagination, and subtly breaks free from reality.
A multi-layered film and a biting political commentary on contemporary Italy, *Aprile* is a luminous tale of fatherhood, a mischievous and self-deprecating exploration of the doubts, lulls and outbursts of a creative artist.

Screening organised by the Ciné-Club Mendois as part of the 2026/2027 season, in partnership with the Mende-Volterra twinning committee and as part of Tuscan Week.

LUIS BUÑUEL