Nanni Moretti’s “Mia Madre,” starring Margherita Buy, is something more than a work of personal cinema—it’s a virtual manifesto for it, an effort to grasp the very motive for his art.

0 Palme d’Or winning director Nanni Moretti has been absent from our screens since 2011’s We Have a Pope, but returns with Mia Madre: a stirring work that blends pathos with gentle wit (like ...

“Mia Madre” follows Margherita (Margherita Buy) as she struggles through her latest project, a trite social drama about workers occupying a factory. Overcome by grief and lack of preparation ...

The ability to interlace reality and fantasy is one of cinema's strengths, and at times Mia Madre is as bewitchingly surreal as 8 1/2, Fellini's stream-of-consciousness classic.

The prestigious Cahiers du Cinema named Mia Madre as the best film of 2015 – from anywhere. (Hint: make a film within a film and the French will eat it up).

After his pop at Berlusconi, The Caiman, and cheeky peek inside the papal selection process, We Have a Pope, beloved Italian director Nanni Moretti returns to the melancholy territory of his Palme ...

“Mia Madre” centers on a director, played by Buy, who is shooting an Italian film with a famous American actor (Turturro), who’s also a disruptive blowhard and buffoon.

“Mia Madre” marks Moretti's return to autobiographical subjects – in this case the recent loss of his mother. It also confirms the filmmaker's gradual shift to supporting roles.

Mia Madre is a triumph of tonal complexity. It’s a funny tragedy, a serious comedy, a film about death that has its wake and eats it. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025. All rights reserved.

Mia Madre – the English translation is My Mother – eventually puts Barry to one side, and the final scenes have a tender, quiet honesty that feels drawn from genuine personal experience ...