Silvio Orlando,
Margherita Buy,
Daniele Rampello,
Jasmine Trinca,
Giacomo Passarelli
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Controversial Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berluscoi is just one of the targets of writer and director Nanni Moretti's satiric focus in this sharp comedy-drama. In the 1970's, Bruno (Silvio Orlando) ... read more
Stats: 99 reviews
A comparison between two systems, the disastrous life of a film producer, and the calamitous course of a country ruled by a hypocrite and corrupt villain (which is not fiction at all, not only in italy).
A satire about power and the odyssey of making a movie about it. funny and w... read more
Who said political movies weren't fun? Il Caimano is a lyrical vision of modern politics (not only in Italy). Brilliantly interpreted by fantastic actors. The imagination of the director seems endless.
A familiarity with the vagaries of Italian politics in the last 20 years is a help, but not a necessity, to appreciate this fascinating at times farcical blend of domestic drama and political rumination.
A warm family drama pops through the seams of a film within-a-film about Silvio Berlusconi.
... the film-within-the film wraps, but the willful manipulation of honest citizens continues unabated. Full Review
An unfocused mess of a movie that fairly throws its hands in the air in the final act, rather than chug along to a conclusion. Full Review
one can only assume that it was the accumulation of Berlusconi's own indiscretions that cost him the 2006 elections rather than the muted blows of this aimlessly incoherent and over-clever satire. Full Review
Telling moments occur here and there, but there is a slack randomness to the movie, the attack on Berlusconi is unfocused and Bruno is too weak to sustain the film. Full Review
Muddled and messy anti-Berlusconi satire now looks even more exasperating than when I first saw it. Full Review
Some moments amuse but one's left wishing that Moretti had ditched his film-within-a-film framework and made either a documentary or a domestic drama. Full Review
The political satire in this bitty drama can be lost on those residing outside of Italy. Full Review
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