Synopsis
The Mass Is Ended (La messa è finita, 1985) is an Italian drama by Nanni Moretti you can watch online on iFILM. Moretti directs and stars as Don Giulio, a young priest reassigned to a parish on the outskirts of Rome, returning to the city where he grew up.
Giulio expected a warm reunion. Instead he finds everyone he loves quietly falling apart. His parents' marriage is collapsing, his sister faces a hard decision, and his old friends — once fellow leftist radicals — have scattered into private disappointments after the revolution fizzled out. The priest throws himself at every problem, trying to counsel and reconcile, and keeps hitting the same wall: nobody wants saving on his terms, and his faith in fixing other people starts to crack.
The film won Moretti the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and stands among his sharpest 1980s work — bitter, funny, and deeply personal. There's no sermon here; Moretti watches his own character from a wry distance. It's for viewers who love European auteur cinema where a small family fracture matters more than any big event. Stream The Mass Is Ended (1985) online on iFILM.
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