Marco Bellocchio
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Italiano
Description
In his most achingly personal film to date, legendary Italian Filmmaker Marco Bellocchio uses the occasion of a family reunion in his hometown of Piacenza to excavate and discuss a traumatic event: the death of his twin brother Camillo, who committed suicide in the late '60s at age 29. Through detailed conversations with his siblings, archival footage providing context about 20th-century Italian leftist politics, and occasional clips from his films,...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Italiano
Description
From one of Italy's most revered directors, Marco Bellocchio, comes Kidnapped, the true story of Edgardo Mortara. Mortara was a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, when in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family by the Pope, to be raised Catholic. His parents' struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
A senator, forced to vote for a law with which he profoundly disagrees, is torn between his conscience and his loyalty towards the leaders of his party. His daughter, a right-to- life activist, falls in love with an advocate for assisted suicide. A famous actress turns towards faith and miracle cures in the hope of bringing her daughter out of an irreversible coma. And the beautiful Rossa is saved by the young doctor Pallido and reawakens to life....
Series
Criterion collection volume 333
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Italiano
Description
Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
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