Two years after his previous effort, “Three Floors” opened with a high-profile belly flop, festival-stalwart Nanni Moretti returns to Cannes with “A Brighter Tomorrow,” a comeback of sorts that also ...

With his no-frills style and self-deprecating wit, it’s easy to forget the Italian helmer has been a major force in global cinema for more than 40 years. Ahead of his return to Cannes with 'A Brighter ...

A Palme d’Or winner in 2001 for ‘The Son’s Room,’ the Italian director returns to the auto-fiction that first put him on the international map with ‘Dear Diary.’ By David Rooney Chief Film Critic More ...

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 24: (L-R) Valentina Romani and Director Nanni Moretti depart the "Il Sol Dell'Avvenire (A Brighter Tomorrow)" red carpet during the 76th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des ...

Nanni Moretti returns to the film-within-a-film format with a fitfully funny new comedy that, this time, offers two films-within-a-film (plus a surreal dream sequence). It is, frankly, a relief after ...

Palme d’Or-winning Italian auteur Nanni Moretti (“The Son’s Room”) is set to soon return behind camera on the romantic drama “Succederà questa notte” (“It Will Happen Tonight”), starring French star ...

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 directed ...

Former Palme d’Or winner and past Cannes jury president Nanni Moretti returned to a familiar berth in the Cannes competition on Sunday with his Rome-set drama “Three Floors.” However, it’s safe to say ...

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Italian director Nanni Moretti was presented the Palme d’Or (grand prize) for “Our Son’s Room,” the story of how a family copes with the accidental death of its ...

A distaff director’s emotions become increasingly frayed as her mother is dying in Nanni Moretti’s affecting but fitfully integrated drama. Comparisons will inevitably be made with Moretti’s “The ...

Nanni Moretti is one of the key makers of the modern personal cinema, as in such masterworks as “Caro Diario.” He even served as one of the founders of the mode, when, in the early seventies, around ...

So much so that it’s hard to hear anyone but Moretti in his new film, “We Have a Pope.” Once the Vatican’s votes for the new pope are in, the victor (Cardinal Melville played by Michael Piccoli) finds ...