Tag: The Traitor

  • #12: The 31st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival

    #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…

  • Il traditore (The Traitor) (2019)

    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.