CANNES, France - the central character "Habemus Papam of Nanni Moretti" is a cardinal Catholic Roman seized with faith-testing panic when it is selected as the next Pope.
Moretti is a confirmed atheist and a confident filmmaker, welcomed criticism. And yet, he argues that the film is - as his films - autobiographical.
"Even if they do not speak on my life, they represent that I am at the moment," Moretti said in an interview at the Cannes Festival. "They always reflect a sense that I have at this time, a feeling which grows and leads to a story and characters."
In the case of "habemus papam" - Latin for "we have a Pope" expression with which the election of a Pontiff is announced - sense was "a sense of failure... the desire to be elsewhere, the difficulty you have in playing the role for which you have been choisiou you have chosen yourself." "".
It is a feeling of many viewers will recognize - but a stroke daring to invest that anxiety in elected Pontiff, a man looks at the faithful was chosen by God to lead the Church.
The screen the Pope, played by the French old actor Michel Piccoli for 85 years, rushes away from the balcony of the Vatican, where he is due to bless the crowd gathered below. As opposed to managers of a psychoanalyst played by Moretti, he escapes and wanders the streets of Rome, meet ordinary people and reassessment of his life.
His companions left, stranded in the city of the Vatican, Cardinals battle to pass the time until that character of Moretti organizes a clerical volleyball tournament.
Moretti has declared that he wanted to humanize these mysterious and distant churches figures, seen at the beginning of the film to scroll the Vatican in dress crimson glory, but soon revealed to be as much of the frail and human than anyone in the audience.
"The Pope is shown as a man," said Moretti. "Even if it is considered as the incarnation of God on Earth, he is a man and a man who is able to say no. I also wanted to make more human Cardinals - these small children that are blocked in the conclave."
The film, one of the 20 competing for first prize at the festival this year, has already opened in Italy for a mixture of praise, disappointment and relief.
The relief came from the Church, who feared Moretti, who sent to scandal-magnet Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in "he caimano" ("The Cayman"), may have his satirical scalpel. The disappointment comes from laity, sorry it was not more wild on a church which has been tarnished by revelations of sexual abuse committed and an investigation of laundering money in the Bank of Vatican.
"These people want to know my film something they know already," said Moretti. "They would like to see something that they have already seen and be told that they have already read in the newspapers and seen on TV". I preferred to make a film which dealt with the issues.
"When I do a film, I don't think believers on the audience, on a particular audience - step or psychoanalysts or right wing or the left," he said. "" "". I do what I want to do. ?
Moretti is clearly a Director with confidence in his own imagination. Representation in the lavishly detailed scenes of the film of the Vatican took less research that might be expected.
"I have invented," said the Italian Director. "It's my job." I saw a documentary that has inspired me for the procession when you see all the Cardinals goes to the Sistine Chapel. The rest was invented. ?
He convinced in part because few have seen behind closed doors Vatican. In the era of the Internet, Moretti can demand how much time this mystery remains intact.
"Maybe you webcams in the Sistine Chapel the next time," said.
The 57-year-old Moretti is a favorite of Cannes and won the top page, the Palme d'Or trophy, a decade earlier with his history of the family loss "room of the son."
But it does step radiate delight as he is sitting nervously on a hotel balcony overlooks the dismal Croisette, the Cannes seafront boulevard.
"I am not a frequent traveler," said Moretti. "And to go to Cannes does not travel." It is a folly. ?
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