Tag: Marco Bellocchio
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#42: The 59th Chicago International Film Festival
Recap of the Italian films featured at the festival, including reviews of “Kidnapped” and “The Beautiful Summer.”
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Kidnapped (2023)
The chilling real-life story of a boy taken from his Jewish family to be raised by the Catholic Church.
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#12: The 31st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival
I’m back from the 31st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival! I wanted to provide an overview of the seven Italian films I got to see, all of which were featured in the Focus on Italy program of this year’s festival: Croce e delizia (An Almost Ordinary Summer) by Simone Godano Martin Eden by Pietro…
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Il traditore (The Traitor) (2019)
Veteran director Marco Bellocchio, decades into his career, is still grappling with questions of existentialism: building a sense of order in a world of disorder, through one’s own moral code and logic, however twisted.