If you are an addict of Woody Allen films, you might like to try this autobiographical odyssey from maverick Italian director Nanni Moretti, which won the Best Director Award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. The first section is a (romanticised) portrait of the unknown and unsung Rome while the director (riding his Vespa) muses on life and fantasises about Jennifer Beals in Flashdance. In the second part we see the director island-hopping together with his old friend Gerardo, an academic studying James Joyce's Ulysses in minute detail. And finally, in a piece which is sometimes difficult to watch, the director confronts his own health problems - and the Italian medical profession. Some will see self-indulgence; others will enjoy a gently ironic, sometimes haunting exploration of life's funny little corners.


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