| Mia madre | |
| Director: | Nanni Moretti |
| Cinematography: | Arnaldo Catinari |
| Editing: | Clelio Benevento |
| Runtime: | 107 minutes[1] |
Mia madre is a 2015 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Nanni Moretti. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[2] [3] It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[4]
Margherita (Margherita Buy) is a director working on a social-realist film about a factory strike called Noi siamo qui (We Are Here), starring American actor Barry Huggins (John Turturro) as the factory owner. Huggins consistently fails to deliver his lines properly and the fraught nature of the shoot is exacerbated by unhelpful advice from Margherita to her actors. She breaks up with her boyfriend, an actor in the film, and is divorced from the father of her daughter, Livia (Beatrice Mancini). Her brother Giovanni (Nanni Moretti) has taken time off work to help care for their ailing mother, Ada (Giulia Lazzarini), a retired classics teacher who has been hospitalised. Margherita comes to feel guilty for not taking on more responsibility for her mother and reflects on her often cold relations with her family, friends and colleagues.
Mia Madre has an approval rating of 84% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 92 reviews, and an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Mia Madre explores thought-provoking themes with director/co-writer Nanni Moretti's reliably skillful blend of comedy and pathos". Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generaly favorable reviews".
Les Cahiers du cinéma placed the film 1st in their 2015 Top Ten chart[5] and featured Nanni Moretti on their November's cover.[6] High on Films Website wrote "Life, death, film-making, solitude, relationships & existential crisis form the crux of Nanni Moretti's Mia Madre".[7]
| Awards and nominations | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result | |
| 70th Silver Ribbon Awards | Best Director | Nanni Moretti | ||
| Best Producer | Nanni Moretti and Domenico Procacci | |||
| Best Screenplay | Nanni Moretti, Valia Santella, and Francesco Piccolo | |||
| Best Actress | Margherita Buy | |||
| Best Editing | Clelio Benevento | |||
| Best Sound | Alessandro Zanon | |||
| Special Nastro d'Argento | Giulia Lazzarini | |||
| 68th Cannes Film Festival[8] | Palme d'Or | Nanni Moretti | ||
| Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | ||||
| 60th David di Donatello Awards[9] | Best Film | Nanni Moretti and Domenico Procacci | ||
| Best Director | Nanni Moretti | |||
| Best Script | Nanni Moretti, Valia Santella and Francesco Piccolo | |||
| Best Producer | Nanni Moretti and Domenico Procacci | |||
| Best Actress | Margherita Buy | |||
| Best Supporting Actress | Giulia Lazzarini | |||
| Best Supporting Actor | Nanni Moretti | |||
| Best Makeup | Enrico Iacoponi | |||
| Best Editing | Clelio Benevento | |||
| Best Sound | Alessandro Zanon | |||
| 55th Globi d'oro | Best Film | Nanni Moretti | ||
| Best Script | Nanni Moretti, Valia Santella, and Francesco Piccolo | |||
| Best Actress | Margherita Buy | |||
| 30th Ciak d'oro[10] | Best Director | Nanni Moretti | ||
| Best Actress | Margherita Buy | |||
| Best Supporting Actor | Nanni Moretti | |||
| Best Supporting Actress | Giulia Lazzarini | |||
| Best Producer | Nanni Moretti and Domenico Procacci | |||
| Best Screenwriter | Nanni Moretti, Valia Santella, and Francesco Piccolo | |||
| Best Sets and Decorations | Paola Bizzarri | |||
| Best Movie Poster | Internozero comunicazione | |||
| 28th European Film Awards | Best Director | Nanni Moretti | ||
| Best Actress | Margherita Buy | |||