I've seen Il caimano with a group of spinsters politically dogged. It was my first Nanni Moretti film, and I fell in love with him and his cinema. Il caimano is a marvellous film, talking about a family and a dream in the Berlusconi era. Bruno Bonomo is a producer of B-movies. He's stubborn and dreamer, and one night he receives a screenplay from a girl during a film festival. This girl wants at all costs realize a film about Berlusconi, called Il caimano. Bruno doesn't understand the main character is just Berlusconi, and so he decides to please the girl preparing this film. All happens while the Bonomo family falls to pieces. Bruno Bonomo is played by Silvio Orlando, an actor present in a lot of Moretti's films, who gives a splendid performance. His wife Paola is played by Margherita Buy, the best contemporary Italian actress according to me (I'd drool for seeing her in the whole B-movie at the beginning, Cataratte), and the young director, Teresa, is played by Jasmine Trinca, a nice and quite good promise of Italian cinema, together with Silvio Muccino, Cristiana Capotondi and Riccardo Scamarcio. To complete the cast, there are Michele Placido, Jerzy Stuhr, Anna Bonaiuto, a lot of directors and he, Nanni Moretti. A marvellous film: who wants to study the Berlusconian Italy, well, he (or she) has to watch it.
Review of The Caiman
