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‘We Have a Pope’ director Nanni Moretti invents his own reality

By Christopher Wallenberg

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 15, 2012

Throughout his career, the revered Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti has employed high-flying farce and trenchant satire that marries the personal with the political, often blurring reality and fiction. He created a media stir with his 2006 film “The Caiman,” a savage skewering of controversial Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. So when it was revealed that Moretti was making “We Have a Pope,” set inside the Vatican, more than a few pundits anticipated a full-scale assault on the papacy.

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