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2011 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam

The only film in the Main Competition to have premiered outside the festival, back on its home turf it, Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam received mixed reviews. The remaining question was, would international critics warm up to the hypothetical proposition: what if the Pope (formidably played by Michel Piccoli) wasn’t apt for the job and what if a shrink (a watered down performance by Moretti) were asked to help solve the situation? The soul-searching tale about a man unwilling to take the lead in one domain of his life, but going full throttle in a whole new direction whimpered into this festival as the duelling tones might have turned off some and it comes packaged lacking Moretti’s usually biting and satirical criticism. The panel’s grades reflect this. Click on the image below.

The only film in the Main Competition to have premiered outside the festival, back on its home turf it, Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam received mixed reviews. The remaining question was, would international critics warm up to the hypothetical proposition: what if the Pope (formidably played by Michel Piccoli) wasn’t apt for the job and what if a shrink (a watered down performance by Moretti) were asked to help solve the situation? The soul-searching tale about a man unwilling to take the lead in one domain of his life, but going full throttle in a whole new direction whimpered into this festival as the duelling tones might have turned off some and it comes packaged lacking Moretti’s usually biting and satirical criticism. The panel’s grades reflect this. Click on the image below.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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