''April'' ( it, Aprile, link=no) is a 1998
Italian semi-autobiographical film directed by
Nanni Moretti. Moretti also played the central character, a filmmaker who has to deal with Italy's political situation, his own goals as an artist and becoming a father.
The French director
Claire Denis described the film thus, "He wants to make a musical comedy but he can't get started. So instead he talks about his life, his new baby, his desires and fears. Finally in the very last scene he begins."
Moretti's wife, son and mother appear as themselves.
Plot
Following the general election of 1994, won by the centre-right coalition led by
Silvio Berlusconi, Moretti is encouraged by a journalist friend to make a documentary about the current political situation in Italy. Two years pass, another election is held, and Moretti has still made no progress with his documentary. He begins shooting another project, alluded to in ''
Dear Diary'', a musical about a Trotskyist pastry chef set in the 1950s, but he becomes disillusioned and is distracted by his wife Silvia's pregnancy, which preoccupies him more and more. His son Pietro is born, and the centre-left coalition
Ulivo wins the election. Moretti continues to try to shoot his documentary in
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, but the film is never finished. On his 44th birthday he realises that he must stop hesitating and he finally begins shooting his musical in earnest.
Cast
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Nanni Moretti as Himself
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Silvio Orlando as Himself
* Silvia Nono as Herself
* Pietro Moretti as Himself
* Agata Apicella Moretti as Herself
* Nuria Schoenberg as Herself
* as Herself
* Quentin de Fouchécour as Himself
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Renato De Maria
Renato De Maria (born 1958) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than ten films since 1991.
Selected filmography
References
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1958 births
Living people
Italian ...
as Himself
* Claudio Francia as Himself
* Jacopo Francia as Himself
* Matilde Francia as Herself
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Daniele Luchetti as Himself
* Giovanna Nicolai as Herself
* as Himself
Awards
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David di Donatello
The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (The Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award cat ...
1998: Best Supporting Actor (Silvio Orlando)
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Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or (nominated)
References
External links
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1990s political comedy films
1998 films
Films directed by Nanni Moretti
1990s Italian-language films
Italian political comedy films
Self-reflexive films
Films scored by Ludovico Einaudi
Films set in Rome
1998 comedy films
1990s Italian films
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