A priest walks into Rome and nobody laughs. Moretti's spiritual crisis disguised as a comedy.
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal.
Direction
Moretti directs himself with brutal self-deprecating precision.
Writing
Dialogue that stings—Catholic guilt meets 80s Italian cynicism.
Cinematography
Rome as liminal space: familiar yet alienating.
Director
Nanni Moretti
Nanni Moretti
Don Giulio
Ferruccio De Ceresa
Padre di Don Giulio
Margarita Lozano
madre di Don Giulio
Marco Messeri
Saverio
Vincenzo Salemme
Andrea
Dario Cantarelli
Gianni
Roberto Vezzosi
Cesare
Enrica Maria Modugno
Valentina
Giovanni Buttafava
l'avvocato
Luisa De Santis
Lucia
Pietro De Vico
frate
Eugenio Masciari
Antonio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Moretti shot this during his own creative crisis; Giulio's spiritual paralysis mirrors the director's fear of irrelevance after early success.
The title references both Catholic liturgy and Fellini's '8½'—Moretti positioning himself as the neurotic heir to Italian auteur cinema.
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