"The Cinema of Nanni Moretti" provides an analysis and interpretation of
the work of the most important Italian film-maker of the past thirty
years and an outstanding figure in contemporary European cinema.
Interdisciplinary and wide-ranging, the book uses Moretti's films as a
lens to view and discuss contemporary phenomena such as the crisis of
masculinity and authority, the crisis of the political Left and the
transformation of the citizen's relationship to the State. Films
discussed include "Aprile, Dear Diary" and "The Son's Room," winner of
the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2001.