'Here we are, stuck by the river'
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Dr Giovanni Semmonti (acted by the writer and director, Nanni Morretti) is a Freudian psychiatrist in Genoa. His wife Paola (Laura Morante) works in an art gallery and they have two teenage children.
Andrea (Giusepe Sanfelice) is about 17 and pushing things at the cutting edge of freedom and secrecy with his peers. Semmonti goes jogging in the morning before he opens his medical office to see his patients.
As the new Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) government takes charge, it must act decisively to equip the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) with the tools, laws, and resources needed to combat graft. The time for half-measures is over. DCEC Director-General, Botlhale Makgekgenene’s, recent address to the Public Accounts Committee paints a stark picture. Over five years, leadership instability, chronic underfunding and weak...