April (1998 film)

April Italian Aprile is a 1998 Italian semiautobiographical film directed by Nanni Moretti. Moretti also played the central character, a filmmaker who has to deal with Italys political situation, his own goals as an artist and becoming a father.

Following the general election of 1994, won by the centreright coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi, Moretti is encouraged by a journalist friend to make a documentary about the current political situation in Italy. Two years pass, another election is held and Moretti makes no progress with his documentary. He begins shooting another project, alluded to in Dear Diary a musical about a Trotskyist pastry chef set in the 1950s, but becomes disillusioned and distracted by his wife Silvias pregnancy, which preoccupies him more and more. His son Pietro is born and the centreleft coalition Ulivo wins the election. He continues to try to shoot his documentary in Venice and Puglia but the film is never finished. On his fortyfourth birthday he realises that he must stop hesitating and he finally begins shooting his musical in earnest.

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