At least I think it was Aprile ... it was SOME Nanni Moretti film, and absolutely hysterical. I remember the scenes of him filming demonstrations in Rome that looked just like this one, and a scene where he is watching the election returns of Berlusconi (it's 1994) with his mother: upon finding out the right had won, he throws his shoe at the television. Just a few years later, here in America, I would be doing the same thing!
From a brief description:
The film begins in Italy in 1994, with the electoral victory of a right-wing political coalition. Moretti, an unabashed liberal, is despondent. He determines to make a documentary about the administration and the next electoral campaign, one that will expose the Right as dangerous and lampoon the Left for being complacent. He speaks loudly and at length to anyone who will listen that this is his civic duty, and that the film will be a document of Italy today. But Moretti has other things going on in his life that keep halting his production of this important documentary. One of them is a musical that he has long wanted to make about a Trotskyite chef. While he's supposed to be researching and organizing his hard-hitting documentary exposé, Moretti finds himself dreaming about the musical and how much more fun and artistically satisfying it would be. There is conflict between art and political imperative in Moretti's world. It's an impasse he must confront–is public duty more important than personal indulgences?
Distracting Moretti even more is the incipient birth of his son. {...}
http://www.aboutfilm.com/movies/a/aprile.htmOo, oo ... I found two clips from the film on youtube (no English translation, but you don't need it to see his reaction to Berlusconi!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kieOhVscMAw&NR=1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwYcGpVO_Sw&feature=related
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