![]() I had prepared some materials to read and watch for this movie, but because of the shortage of time, I couldn’t use them. That was a very painful experience.Īside from your notes, what other sources and materials did you use while writing the screenplay? At some moments during the process of writing in order to give more depth to the story and to add weight to it I looked at the notes I took during my mother’s illness. It’s a reflection about moviemaking, about how these scenes can be depicted.īecause you experienced the same issue in the recent past with the death of your mother, did you find working on this project more difficult than your other films? Then Margherita is berating the operator and accusing him of being sadistic. It’s a movie within a movie it’s a scene that appears to be real, but later the viewer discovers that it is a movie rather than reality. In that scene, I am making fun of the camera operator, who is told off by Margherita for shooting the beating too closely. NANNI MORETTI: I should say that here I did not choose the police’s side not at all. In the following interview, Moretti elaborates on what he was trying to achieve with My Mother. – Amir GanjavieĪMIR GANJAVIE: You actually start your film with a crane shot, from the point of view of the cop, and I think that viewpoint is crucial here. Cahiers du Cinema called it the best movie of the year, and audiences and critics have expressed similar enthusiasm for Moretti’s subtle approach to this difficult theme. My Mother was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. ![]() Turturro demonstrates a deep understanding of Moretti’s cinema his performance never destabilizes the mourning and reflective sensibility of the movie. Moretti’s approach is sweet and touching, resulting in one of his most tragic films that also has comic touches, thanks largely to John Turturro’s performance. Moretti depicts a middle-aged female director in the process of shooting a movie while also dealing with her dying mother. But My Mother has a more universal appeal since it is about the death of a mother, a fear that can touch anyone. His film The Son’s Room (2001), for example, explores the incomprehensible death of a child. ![]() In his latest movie, My Mother (Mia Madre), 62-year-old Nanni Moretti returns to one of his central preoccupations – how to deal with the loss of a loved one. on August 26, 2016, and we’re reposting Amir’s interview to direct readers to this worthy work. ![]() The film discussed, My Mother, is being released in the U.S. Editor’s note: This is the second director interview by our correspondent Amir Ganjavie, this one conducted at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival. ![]()
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