If you into figurative forms of artist expressions and enjoy deciphering symbols and metaphors (yawn), then you'll find this film very entertaining. Otherwise, it's a good tragic comedy that could have been better.

I think Moretti's best film is "La messa è finita"; but "Bianca" remains a cornerstone of Italian cinema. It depicts a decade, the beginning of 1980's, and contains some of the most legendary sequences of Moretti's cinema: the big Nutella (chocolate and hazelnuts cream) pot, the soccer match when the goal falls under the kick of Michele Apicella, the final monologue about shoes, gaits, friendship and couple life. The leading male, Michele Apicella (Nanni Moretti), is a maths teacher. He teaches in the post-modern Marilyn Monroe school, and his nature is disquieting: moralist, obsessive, sex phobic, he spies on his acquaintances' private life and records every new development of these couples. It's really disturbing. He falls in love with the new French teacher, the ravishing Bianca (Laura Morante), but he can't manage to start a serious relationship. The epilogue will be tragic.

Extreme clearness of mind can be as necessary as breath, and rigour felt as the only decent way through life. And then it is very hard.

Just watch it.