Nanni Moretti's ‘It Will Happen Tonight' Earns 9-Minute Ovation
The adaptation follows two lovers across 17 years as coincidences, family crises and a Bruce Springsteen concert push the romance toward melodrama.
- On Saturday, Italian director Nanni Moretti returned to the Venice International Film Festival after 37 years, receiving a nine-minute ovation for his romantic drama 'It Will Happen Tonight.'
- Adapted from Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo's short story, the 17-year romance follows Matteo and Greta, two 20-somethings navigating romantic crises across multiple continents while serendipitously crossing paths over decades.
- Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca star as the central lovers, portraying a relationship that blends deadpan humor with melodrama as protagonists face aging, illness, and shifting life circumstances.
- After recovering from a spring 2025 heart attack, Moretti explained his 37-year absence from Venice resulted from filming schedules rather than deliberate avoidance of the festival.
- The film marks Moretti's second Golden Lion contender after 1981's 'Sweet Dreams,' cementing his status as Italian arthouse cinema's most consistent force since the 1980s.
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Nanni Moretti's ‘It Will Happen Tonight' Earns 9-Minute Ovation
Nanni Moretti’s romantic drama It’s Will Happen Tonight drew a warm nine-minute ovation at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday evening as the Italian director returned to show a new film there for the first time in 37 years. Moretti last world premiered a film at Venice in 1989 with Palombella Rossa (Red Wood Pigeon), […]
A Nanni Moretti so sentimental and passionate we had never seen it. In "It will happen this night," in the Competition in Venice 83, there are not, thanks to god, tormentions around the "D" Alema of something left and not even the musical on the trotsky pastry chef; but something that probably Moretti has never tried to film in almost fifty years [...] L'articolo L'amour fou by Nanni Moretti in Venice 83 spiazza e convince. In "Sucderà questa no…
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