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La messa è finita (1985)

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Don Giulio, giovane prete romano, ritorna a casa dopo essere stato parroco in un'isola del Mar Tirreno ed è destinato ad una chiesa di periferia. A Roma egli ritrova i genitori, la sorella ... See full summary »

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Don Giulio
Marco Messeri ...
Saverio
Ferruccio De Ceresa ...
Father of Don Giulio
Enrica Maria Modugno ...
Valentina
Dario Cantarelli ...
Gianni
Giovanni Buttafava ...
Lawyer
Luisa De Santis ...
Lucia
Pietro De Vico ...
Friar
Eugenio Masciari ...
Antonio
Vincenzo Salemme ...
Andrea
Roberto Vezzosi ...
Cesare
Margarita Lozano ...
Mother of Don Giulio
Luisanna Pandolfi ...
The Mother
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Manfredi Aliquo ...
Teppista
Umberto Bellissimo
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Don Giulio, giovane prete romano, ritorna a casa dopo essere stato parroco in un'isola del Mar Tirreno ed è destinato ad una chiesa di periferia. A Roma egli ritrova i genitori, la sorella e i vecchi amici. Ma la realtà è diversa da quella che lui ha lasciato. La parrocchia è praticamente deserta : il suo predecessore si è sposato, ha un figlio e vive a pochi metri dalla canonica; ed anche gli amici sono cambiati (chi è sotto processo per terrorismo; chi vuol farsi sacerdote senza capire perchè; chi è omosessuale e sta vivendo squallide avventure; chi è stato abbandonato dall'amica e vive in un isolamento totale). Neppure in famiglia le cose vanno meglio. Il padre, ormai anziano, ha preso una sbandata per una donna e lascia la moglie, che si suicida. La sorella è incinta del fidanzato e don Giulio riesce a stento a non farla abortire. Coinvolto in tali gravi situazioni, scoraggiato, deluso e non sempre in grado di fornire una risposta ai dubbi che gli vengono esposti, a poco a poco ... Written by rosebud6

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His hopes shattered, now it is time for another place...

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15 November 1985 (Italy)  »

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The Mass Is Ended  »

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Written and Performed by Bruno Lauzi
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Good movie: angry and surprising
12 February 2006 | by (Paris, France) – See all my reviews

I came to Nanni Moretti from his wise and witty later movies _Caro Diario_ and _The Son's Room_. So in _La Messa_ I was surprised to see a bitter, angry, and quite selfish Moretti in the role of a suburban priest who seems--much like the psychoanalyst of _The Son's Room_--utterly incapable of helping those who put themselves in his care.

There's lots to like in this movie: the somewhat decrepit but nonetheless lovely settings around Rome, the nods to other great Italian movies (Moretti, in his cassock, playing soccer with the school kids, calls to mind Rossellini's _Rome, Open City_), the intense and largely convincing story. I found particularly compelling a courtroom confrontation involving a judge, a defendant, and Moretti's priest as a witness. I was, on the whole, moved by Moretti's take on the priest's dealings with his brothers-in-arms from what were presumably their days as leftist activists.

On a final note, people are always comparing Moretti to Woody Allen. I don't see why. Their movies have almost nothing in common. I have never seen Allen as anything more than a second-rate standup comic, or as a caricature. Moretti, on the other hand, is a human being.


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