A woman’s struggle to balance her career and family is well-trodden ground in narrative cinema, but “Mia Madre” goes beyond the surface to illustrate one woman’s own experiences in nuanced — albeit ...

Nanni Moretti’s “Mia Madre,” starring Margherita Buy, is something more than a work of personal cinema—it’s a virtual manifesto for it, an effort to grasp the very motive for his art.

Read the Empire Movie review of Mia Madre. Among the excellent principals, top-billed Turturro enlivens things wonderfully, but the real star, ...

mia-madre-reviewWhile its sadder elements simmer, subtle yet efficiently beneath the surface, Moretti's latest is adorned by its elegant dialogue.

Italian writer-director Nanni Moretti’s autobiographically inspired Mia Madre captures this dislocation in an intriguing – though sometimes frustrating – way.

Such is Werner Herzog’s idea, I reckon, of the perfect vacation: to infinity and beyond. The new and sorrowful film by Nanni Moretti, “Mia Madre,” is about a movie director.

The ability to interlace reality and fantasy is one of cinema's strengths, and at times Mia Madre is as bewitchingly surreal as 8 1/2, Fellini's stream-of-consciousness classic.

“Mia Madre,” then, shows us what we don’t expect: The dark humor in illness, the ridiculous requirements of making great art, the real life we experience beyond the images we see.

That experience of loss, if not its precise circumstances, informs his follow-up, the semi-autobiographical “Mia Madre,” which centers on a female stand-in for Moretti.

Mia madre opens with a labor demonstration in Rome, which like almost all movie demonstrations is unconvincing. Fortunately, in this case it’s meant to be that way, since it’s part of a film ...

Film director Margherita (Margherita Guy) participates in a press conference with her film’s star Barry Huggins (John Turturro) in a scene from “Mia Madre” | COURTESY MUSIC BOX FILMS ...