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2 days ago · May 24, 2024 9:53am. Kidnapped: The Abduction Of Edgardo Mortara Cannes Film Festival. A searing historical drama set in mid-19th century Bologna, and a TIFF award winning coming-of-age story open ...
3 days ago · “Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara” begins with scenes so bizarre, astonishing and enraging that it’s as if Kafka wandered into 19th-century Italy. The story is true, though: In ...
4 days ago · Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara uses the case of the titular character, a young Jewish boy who was taken from his family in 1858 by the Catholic Church, as the conduit to investigate zealotry informed by the idea of Papal supremacy.
2 days ago · Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara. In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son.
3 days ago · by Michael Sicinski Featured Film Spotlight. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara — Marco Bellocchio. May 23, 2024. Many critics’ wrap-ups from the 2023 edition of Cannes included dismissive language directed at Ken Loach’s new film competition film, The Old Oak.
3 days ago · The video shows the women — all Israel Defense Forces (IDF) personnel — lined up against a wall, their hands bound. The faces of some of the women are bruised and bloodied. The footage was...
3 days ago · Edgardo, the sixth child in his family, is thrust into a life-altering ordeal when his Christian maid, Anna Morisi, secretly baptizes him during a severe illness. Believing the boy is on the brink of death and concerned for his eternal soul, Anna’s covert act sets off a chain of events that are both riveting and tragic.
