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Journal of Modern Italian Studies
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Anno XVIII , n° 2, Dicembre 2000 ( Cinema ) pag. 270-280

CARO DIARIO: A MODERN JOURNEY OF PURIFICATION
ANTONELLA D'AQUINO
Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee
Caro diario, Moretti's fragmentary cinematic text, is an attempt to depict a rather ingenious self-portrayal. The first two chapters, entitled In vespa and Isole, can be viewed as an intellectual and "piritual" journey, where the middle-aged Roman
director is desperately seeking a metaphorical purification from
society's vices. These first two chapters, of intense symbolic nature, are filled with images whose eclipsed and submerged meanings are often of literary origin. [...]
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