The Caiman/Il Caimano (2006) - Moretti's unfunny political comedy - strictly for Italians

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The unexciting poster for Nanni Moretti's The Caiman

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Il Caimano is the title of a film script that our aging producer protagonist takes on as a new project, which, however, comes apart, more or less as his marriage, as he learns that the film is really about Italian political leader Silvio Berlusconi.

Unfortunately for The Caiman, the movie in the movie is considerably more interesting than the low-spirited, far-fetched, politically spongy, unimpassioned, mostly unfunny film that co-writer/director Nanni Moretti (We Have a Pope/Habemus Papam (2011)) has created around it. It is marred by ugly photography, bad music and unexciting characters and conflicts. The Caiman is a fairly poor parody of the depressing situation of things in Italy, back in 2006.

Michele Placido in the middle as the Silvio Berlusconi-sculpted character in Nanni Moretti's The Caiman

Watch the terrible trailer for the film here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: 6.7 mil. € (Italy only)
= Uncertainty
[But most likely a minor hit. The film was shown in Cannes and premiered in Italy around the beginning of their 2006 election, in which Berlusconi lost. It was one of the biggest hits in Italy in 2006. In France, 202k people paid admission.]

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