Is Nanni excited to be taking his new movie to Cannes? He says that the he doesn’t care what the French think – they can think what they want about Italy and they aren’t waiting around for one of his films to find out about his country. (Nanni Moretti is growing on me – why do I get the feeling that he’d think I was an American twit?) He brought Italian politics to Cannes with “il Caimano” and now he’ll bring the church with his new “Habemus Papam”, the story of a reluctant Pope and his therapist (and I CAN’T WAIT to see it.)
He also says that what the Vatican thinks of this movie is the last of his problems – that he didn’t care what psychologists were thinking of “The Son’s Room” and he doesn’t give a rat’s ass (my word’s, not his, but I kind of get the feeling he’d approve of them) of their thoughts on the new one. When asked if he’d like it if the Pope saw the movie he said, “If he’d like to he can.”
Nanni Moretti always seems like he’s in a bad mood but he must be at least a little happy – I think Cannes will love Habemus Papam.
There’s a very big buzz aroung Paolo Sorrentino’s “This Must Be The Place”, so it looks like a good year for Italians at Cannes. In it Sean Penn stars as a rock star in retirement in Dublin, who decides to travel to the US and search for the fugitive Nazis who persecuted his father.
I Love Italian Everything 