The hero of Cayman is called Bruno Bonomo

"Caiman", Nanni Moretti, theatrically released Monday and it is planned that evening in the official competition of the Cannes Festival. Can it remain a film which was at the heart of a bygone Italian campaign ("Les Echos weekend" April 7: "Nanni,"The Caiman"and elections") Which is soldée in addition, by the fall of that which he had taken into focus, "Caiman", alias Silvio Berlusconi A lot of things. Evidence that it is not a film of circumstances, even less propaganda. Moretti the (distant) moralist, the idealist (disappointed), the misanthrope (ready to flee his next), the (shady) narcissistic which amounts to the same had a beautiful bone to chew with this electoral event. But it is good to feed this transalpine Alceste fiel, that it is collar butt strangely to characterize as "Woody Allen Italian". Be wary of "strange" people, they are often grim.

During the election campaign, Moretti kept repeating: "" Cayman"is not a film about Berlusconi." It was thought he was joking. Is wrong. "Cayman" tells three films. A film about the policy, all the same, on the conquest and the exercise of the power, as said Blum, Silvio Berluconi in repulsive figure, and the Italy in wayward bride. When, in the film, a Polish producer exclaims: "...". You are a people in halfway between horror and folklore (...) Each time, we believe that you other Italians, you have hit the bottom, and then not! You continue to dig, dig, dig... And you get even lower, below... You rake! ", is believed to hear Moretti. Film policy, "Caiman" is also a story about the passion of the cinema and the difficulty of creating. Finally, it is a reflection on love, in its variant of the "sentimental sinking."

The hero of "Cayman" is called Bruno Bonomo. He is a producer, bankrupt. At its top, a B-movie: "The moccasins killers", "Maciste against Freud", "La Femme flic to the stilettos". He has a passion for the cinema and a dream: turn the "return of Columbus". But he is unable to complete the financing of the project. It crosses a young Director, reads his script, "The Caiman", and discover, behind the "thriller" on a real estate developer became King of commercial television and the strong man in the country, a charge against Silvio Berlusconi. He decided to carry out the project to completion. In full crisis personal his wife leaving him, his children are paumés Bonomo clings to this film as a buoy can save and restore dignity and confidence. The most difficult: find an actor to embody Berlusconi. It is read in turn by Berlusconi in person, through archival footage; Elio de Capitani (Director and actor of Italian, the more physically close to the former President of the Council and the most credible Theatre); Michele Placido, in old entertainer desperately seeking the name of Gian Maria wishes; and Nanni Moretti himself. The character of "Caiman" is dazzling of cynicism. Moretti Director rule a final account with the "Cavaliere" to which he was never forgive transformed the Italy in "a field of ruins".