With The Abduction and the documentary Marx can wait, Marco Bellocchio has admirably completed an American filmography of great stories and intimate dramas.
With The Abduction , filmmaker Marco Bellocchio has tackled a dark episode of Italian history. In the year 1853, in Bolonia, some men from the Vatican arrived at the house of a family justice. On this subject, by the order of the card: we leave with them a child of six years that one of our years before has been born in secret by a Catholic cry that has created death. The child was lifted up to the Vatican, and was loved by Papa Pío IX, and was brought to his father as soon as possible to recover.
More all of the events of the era, The Abduction, by Marco Bellocchio, is the retrato of an era: Italia was a pocos años de la unificación and the Church has everything possible to maintain its power to frente its irremediable decadence. This is, therefore, a very classic epic film in its form, which Bellocchio recreates as the birthplace of the decadent splendor of a century-old institution that is never seen as it changes in the world. With this new film, the 83-year-old cinematographer does not hesitate to criticize the Church because it is deeply anti-semitic, encircled in its misma, podrida por dentro e impermeable to any questioner. No es la primera vez que Bellocchio arremete contra el catolicismo, y es que en 2002, My Mother's Smile (La sonrisa de mi madre) -the history of an artist at the same time infringed on the hipocresía del deseo de su familia de canonizar a su madre- fue prohibida por el Vaticano.
In another film, Marco Bellocchio painted an intimate retrato of Italia, relating personal dramas that take place in the history of the great History. In The Traitor (2019). Good morning, night (2003) y su secuela, la serie Night exterior (2022), evocan la Italia de los años de plomo y con Win (2009), es por supuesto el fascismo lo que se cuenta través del retrato de la lover de Mussolini y son illegítimo, pero en los ultimos años, Marco Bellocchio ha centrado su atención en otra historia más personal. Una historia olvidada, una ausencia: la de su hermano gemelo, Camillo, fallecido en 1968.
Finally, Marx can wait, finally available in France, is a unique film about Bellocchio. A documentary of archives and collections, the retrato of a fantasy, of a story that can never be written… The film of a man that we confront with the past with what it presents.
The Abduction y Marx can wait by Marco Bellocchio, in cinemas from November 1.
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