Never one to shy away from controversy, Italian film-maker Nanni Moretti has followed The Caiman, his assault on Silvio Berlusconi, with a nervously anticipated examination of the holiest of holy cows ...

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Going into Italian director Nanni Moretti’s tale of a modern-day Cardinal who flees the Vatican after he’s elected to assume the papacy, one might suspect that the film would cast a critical shadow ...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the Cannes Film Festival. “Habemus Papam” opens in limited release on Friday. “Habemus Papam” (“We Have a Pope”) is stuck somewhere between ...

Summary: A newly-elected pope sees a therapist. With: Michel Piccoli and Nanni Moretti Nanni Moretti deserves respect for keeping his hatchet away from this film about a troubled pope Habemus Papam, ...

What if I told you a new movie, set at the Vatican during a papal conclave, has much in common with HBO’s mob drama “The Sopranos” and also with the Audrey Hepburn-Gregory Peck romance “Roman Holiday” ...

Directed by Nanni Moretti. Starring Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Jerzy Stuhr, Renato Scarpa PG cert, Cineworld/IFI, Dublin, 102 min TEN YEARS ago, Nanni Moretti won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with a ...

ROME – The mist is beginning to clear around Habemus Papam, Nanni Moretti’s film telling the story of how the world’s number one believer loses his way between ego and God. The Pope is shown from ...

A delightfully underplayed turn from Michel Piccoli as a newly-elected Pope paralysed by feelings of inadequacy, a large dose of widescreen confidence and some moments of delicate human observation ...

A strange noise was heard at the 8:30 screening of Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam this morning. Laughter – lots of it. Films in Competition at Cannes are often bold, challenging, concerned. They’re ...