Movie Reviews 3:00 pm Thu April 5, 2012  'We Have A Pope':
Whoops, Maybe We Don't  Credit Philippe Antonello / IFC Film
Reluctant Papa: Michel Piccoli (center) plays Melville, a
cardinal surprisingly elected pope by his peers. At a critical
moment before he must address his new flock, Melville insists he
can't take the job.  "God sees abilities in me I don't have,"
laments the protagonist of Italian writer-director Nanni
Moretti's new movie. Such self-doubt is hardly novel, but
Melville (Michel Piccoli) has a special stake in God's opinion
of him — he's just been elected pope.  Although best known in
this country for the playful Dear Diary and the melancholy The
Son's Room, Moretti is a committed leftist and a stalwart
opponent of Silvio Berlusconi. His previous film, The Caiman,
lunged for the then-prime minister's throat. Yet We Have a Pope
is not the filmmaker's next assault on a Roman patriarch. It's a
half-sweet, half-rueful existential drama in which the satire
comes secondary.  Moretti, who usually tak