Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti?s films speak for introverted individual concerns at work in a group dynamic. In Dear Diary, a 40 year-old Moretti rides around Rome on his motorcycle trying to figure out just how much of a part he wants in a society where legendary poet/filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini has died and soap operas are insanely popular. Similarly, his latest film, We Have a Pope (a.k.a. Habemus Papum), concerns a reluctant cardinal (an excellent performance by Michel Piccoli) elected to be the next pope but is too nervous to assume the role. Pope, which opens Friday in limited release, originally screened in competition at last year?s Cannes Film Festival — to which Moretti is planning his return next month as the president of this year?s competition jury. Talk about group dynamics.
Moretti?s history as a competitor and juror at Cannes Film Festival (he previously served on the jury in 1997; he won the 2001 Palme d?Or for The Son?s Room) makes him an ideal head juror. But with regard to his new film, it?s his outsider status as an atheist that Moretti feels makes his representation of the papal conclave so unique.
?I don?t know what really happens in a conclave,? Moretti told Movieline last week. ?But I wanted my conclave to be different from the ones we have seen in movies and TV, with cardinals that not only didn?t represent themselves as candidates but were afraid to become the pope. I?m not a believer. I have a lot of distance from the Catholic Church. So I can give, as a gift, humanity to a pope, a cardinal or a conclave.?
Meanwhile, when it comes to being arguably the most influential film festival juror on the planet, Moretti says that there?s not really…
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