mia-madre-reviewWhile its sadder elements simmer, subtle yet efficiently beneath the surface, Moretti's latest is adorned by its elegant dialogue.

After his pop at Berlusconi, The Caiman, and cheeky peek inside the papal selection process, We Have a Pope, beloved Italian director Nanni Moretti returns to the melancholy territory of his Palme ...

The prestigious Cahiers du Cinema named Mia Madre as the best film of 2015 – from anywhere. (Hint: make a film within a film and the French will eat it up).

The ability to interlace reality and fantasy is one of cinema's strengths, and at times Mia Madre is as bewitchingly surreal as 8 1/2, Fellini's stream-of-consciousness classic.

Mia madre opens with a labor demonstration in Rome, which like almost all movie demonstrations is unconvincing. Fortunately, in this case it’s meant to be that way, since it’s part of a film ...

Nanni Moretti’s “Mia Madre,” starring Margherita Buy, is something more than a work of personal cinema—it’s a virtual manifesto for it, an effort to grasp the very motive for his art.

A woman’s struggle to balance her career and family is well-trodden ground in narrative cinema, but “Mia Madre” goes beyond the surface to illustrate one woman’s own experiences in nuanced — albeit ...

“Mia Madre” centers on a director, played by Buy, who is shooting an Italian film with a famous American actor (Turturro), who’s also a disruptive blowhard and buffoon.

Mia Madre – the English translation is My Mother – eventually puts Barry to one side, and the final scenes have a tender, quiet honesty that feels drawn from genuine personal experience ...

That experience of loss, if not its precise circumstances, informs his follow-up, the semi-autobiographical “Mia Madre,” which centers on a female stand-in for Moretti.

L'amica Di Mia MadreWhile hardly a household name, Alberto Baldan Bembo has slowly emerged as a cult hero in the Italian library/soundtrack world. And L'amica Di Mia Madre is a stunning example ...