Review of Armageddon Time (2022) by Mauro_Lanari — 01 May 2023

(Mauro Lanari).

A semi-autobiography that is a political pamphlet against the Republican Party from Reagan to Trump, as if since then the so-called Left Wing has ever behaved differently. In realpolitik there is only one way to obtain consensus and manage the acquired power, in the democracy of alternation the decisions taken by the conservatives have never been annulled, the reformists have thanked for the inherited gifts and continued on the same path, from Carter to Clinton, from Obama to Biden, from British Labour to our post-communists. The American dream colonized the West and is the new socioeconomic koine of at least half the planet (are the BRICS a credible alternative?). In short, "Armageddon Time" is the antithesis of what the director and with him contemporary cinema want us to believe, and I don't know if at least once it will happen to me an honest film on this subject (some precious crumb of Moretti?). "James Gray in competition at Cannes, for the fifth time, with his worst film: an inert, unwarlìke, even repellent autobiography" (Federico Pontiggia). The festival's washing of consciences and the 7-minute standing ovation are born and die there, most of the audience has long since dismantled this false reconstruction and rightfully has deserted.