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5 days ago · This film, based on a true story about the kidnapping of a Jewish child in 19th-century Italy, underscores the devastating consequences of family separation. Paolo Pierobon and Enea Sala (on his ...
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- Lisa Kennedy
5 days ago · The film Kidnapped explores the case of Edgardo Mortara, a 6-year-old Jew from Bologna who was secretly baptized, taken from his family, and made a kind of ward to Pope Pius IX. The story, which Kertzer chronicled in a 1997 book, and was for a time in development with Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, is realized with period aplomb by director ...
4 days ago · Marco Bellocchio. Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is so primally upsetting that you would think it would be unbearable to watch. But it proves intoxicating, at times nearly overwhelming, thanks to perfect casting, an economical and impassioned screenplay, and filmmaking overseen by 84-year old cowriter-director ...
4 days ago · Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2024) NR, 2 hr 14 min. The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted ...
4 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 ...
5 days ago · Photo: COHEN MEDIA. “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 ...
5 days ago · A new film review of Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara, directed by Marco Bellocchio, for film review site In Review Online.
