Caro Diario (Dear Diary)

Caro Diario (Dear Diary) won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994. The film, comprised in three vignettes, features the director Nanni Moretti as himself and is related from his point of view and insight. Driving his Vespa he takes us first on a journey to the neighborhoods of Rome, while commenting on the inhabitants and their lives in his comedic way. Later Moretti takes a vacation with his old friend to the secluded islands of the Mediterranean, and we see that each island’s inhabitants are drawn together with their shared obsessions before his TV addicted friend can take no more. The last darkly humorous story concerns his own experience with the medical profession in his search for treatment. An intriguing offbeat film.