Considered the most important auteur in current Italian cinema, director Nanni Moretti (Dear Diary) strikes again in this delightful satire on the state of contemporary society in Italy. The film’s central character (played by Moretti himself and also, significantly, called Nanni) is a filmmaker in mid-life crisis, beset by anxiety, indecision, and egotism and awash in contradictions from within and without. He really wants to make a musical about a Roman pastry cook, but the political scenario—for the first time in Italian history, leftists have gained control of the government—compels him to try a serious documentary instead. In the midst of it all, he goes off to film the birth of his son. The brilliant mixture of documentary and fiction, images and sound, contribute to this comic meditation on conflicts between the personal and the political, adulthood and infancy.