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Bianca
Bianca
7.8
/10
1,252 Ratings

BIANCA

Directed by Nanni Moretti
Italy, 1984
Comedy, Drama, Crime

Synopsis

Michele, a mathematics professor, has started a new job at a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman is murdered in his neighborhood, he thinks he has found the ideal woman in Bianca, a French teacher at the school, but begins to panic.

Synopsis

Michele, a mathematics professor, has started a new job at a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman is murdered in his neighborhood, he thinks he has found the ideal woman in Bianca, a French teacher at the school, but begins to panic.

Our take

A little-seen comedy from Italian auteur Nanni Moretti (Dear Diary, The Son’s Room), Bianca mixes romantic melancholy with social satire to delightful effect. Set against the sun-drenched backdrop of 1980s Rome, this is one of the writer-director’s earliest yet most iconic achievements.