Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
THE THING
La cosa
Synopsis
1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Achille Occhetto proposes changing the name of the Italian Communist Party. This proposition leads to a series of debates within party circles—between those who want to turn over a new leaf and those who have doubts about change.
Synopsis
1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Achille Occhetto proposes changing the name of the Italian Communist Party. This proposition leads to a series of debates within party circles—between those who want to turn over a new leaf and those who have doubts about change.
Our take
Nanni Moretti made his first foray into documentary filmmaking with this torrid examination of a rupture within the Italian Communist Party. Journeying cross-country to capture the intense political debates as they unfolded, The Thing emerges as an elegy for a socialist utopia that wasn’t to be.