Opening Day of Close-Up, The
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The OPENING DAY OF CLOSE-UP is a classic short from Italy's most influential director, that sums up the state of cinema in less than 10 minutes. With the awarding of the Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival to Nanni Moretti's new film, The Son's Room, a wider international community has begun to learn what many have long known: that Moretti is a bellwether of contemporary Italian cinema. From the early 1970s, when his first Super-8 shorts were a hit with Roman cinema clubs, to this most recent success, the forty-seven-year-old Moretti has written, directed, and starred in each of his films. An intellectual even amidst low-brow slapstick, Moretti, practices the art of balancing comedy with deeper metaphysical concerns and a political consciousness. At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Meanwhile Disney's The Lion King is taking Italy by storm. Commentary by Nanni Moretti, recorded in Rome, Italy
This film has never been screened
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