Sogni d'oro (1981) watch online HD

Nanni Moretti's films are never banal. He always tries something new, whether it's a bittersweet diary (Caro Diario), a tale of love and murders (Bianca), a character study about loss (La Stanza del Figlio), or his more political entries (Palombella Rossa, Il Caimano). The only exception is Aprile, which, apart for a few amusingly memorable scenes, felt self-indulgent.

Sogni d'Oro belongs to the early Moretti phase. It's a character study and a surprisingly intimate confession, a movie about a neurotic director, basically Moretti himself - albeit with his typical alias Michele Apicella - trying to make a movie about Sigmund Freud's mother.

The script focuses on Michele's obsessions, fears and doubts as an artist, on his difficult relationships with friends and co-workers - like failed screenwriter Alessandro Haber - and on his mother issues, obviously mirroring his Freud's.

Tone is surreal, satirical: Moretti skewers banality and vulgarity, and the parody of trashy TV shows (which feels prophetical, since the movie was made in 1981) is chillingly on-target, with the ludicrous duel between Michele and his rival.

7/10

A "modern" director is planning a movie about Freud and his mother relationship.His precedent effort about youth met mixed critical reception and some of his detractors claim that a farmer,a housewife and a shepherd could not relate to this heady intellectual stuff and the his cerebral cinema is irrelevant :the producers want dough ,and the only way to get dough is to make commercial palatable movies which can appeal to the masses.The director has got a rival who claims to be on her side ,but the "artist" wants to be unique and he does not want any emulator .

An interesting short scene deals with a Don Siegel movie,a nerd claiming it's full of clichés whereas another one says that he (Siegel) makes a brilliant use of clichés.It is a lesson all critics (professionals or IMDb amateurs such as I )should pay attention too.Who are you to write this movie is this or that? It is very uneven ,funny in places ,but alas ,sometimes showing the worst aspects of the French Godardesque Nouvelle Vague :didacticism is rampant.The actors' playing,sometimes verging on hysteria ,is almost unbearable,in the scene when Freud plays the occasional street pedlar and in the sequence of the ridiculous directors competition .

I like Moretti better when he depicts simple but poignant life stories as he does in "la Stanza Del Figlio" .

Try to watch it as if it has a topic to be followed. However, it gets weirder throughout the film... with chocholate obsession, a farmer and a housewife, and discussions about the moviemaker's movies...

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