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The director Nanni Moretti has been tagged as the Italian Woody Allen. I cannot conceive of more disparate souls. The Allen we see onscreen is controlled by an invisible puppeteer, who ordains every trudging Woody walk, every sickly grimace, every despairing splay and chop of the hands. Moretti, by contrast, is gentle and filleted, his hands drooping from his wrists, his bearded face never far from a smile of resignation. Allen is infinitely funnier yet more easily seduced by the solemn; he lives in terror of dying -- of his own death -- whereas Moretti, who calmly chronicled his cancer treatment in "Dear Diary," would be far more stricken, I imagine, by the passing of ...