I Am Self-Sufficient (1976)

Michele, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the student in Sixties. Now in the Seventies, the four friends don't know what to do, though young and with so many possibilities to find a job in life. Intellectuals marginalized and misunderstood, the four friends find themselves when they can in a restaurant to discuss their outlandish theories. A girl named Olga disrupts their life, but Michele is her favorite, although he does not know what to do with the girl.

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice it. During a water polo match ahead of election day, he starts to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.

Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.

젊은 사제 돈 줄리오는 십년동안 살던 섬을 떠나, 그의 고향인 작은 로마 교구 로 가게 된다. 하지만 성당은 운영되지 않다는 것을 알게 된다. 전 사제는 근처에서 여 자와 살면서 아들까지 있었고, 줄리오는 부모, 여동생, 옛날 친구들을 만나지만 그들은 변해 있었다. 마을사람들이 처한 어려움을 도우려고 하지만 그의 도움도 거절하고 자신 의 가족들마저도 해체되고 있었다. 줄리오는 사람들과 더 가깝게 지낼 수 있는 먼 곳으 로 떠나기로 결정한다.

Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.