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May 23, 2023 · Solid, stately and — like the collapsing Papal States of the Italian Peninsula in the late 1800s — just a little too tradition-bound for its own good, Marco Bellocchio ‘s “ Kidnapped ,” based...
May 23, 2023 · By Jordan Mintzer. May 23, 2023 3:05pm. 'Kidnapping' Cannes Film Festival. At 83 years-old, Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio has been on a hot streak these past years, with the success both at...
May 23, 2023 · Read Deadline's review of 'Kidnapped' from Cannes. The historic sins of Holy Fathers remain unforgiven in Marco Bellocchio’s authoritative historical drama.
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Sep 8, 2023 · Bellocchio has a lot of fun illustrating the pope’s aggrieved and paranoid mindstate, no more so than in a bawdily blasphemous nightmare scene wherein a group of mohel perform a vengeful bris on His Holiness. Yet Pius eventually emerges as the formidable father figure who completes Edgardo’s conversion from defiant Jew to obsequious Catholic.
Apr 22, 2024 · Bellocchio’s Italy is a country where the Middle Ages lasted well into the 19th century: a place of outrageous flamboyance but also of stoicism and moral courage, cruelty but also empathy – precisely because the Mortara family are as Italian as the Pope. Kidnapped is in UK cinemas now.
Rated: 3/5 May 2, 2024 Full Review Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Veteran filmmaker Marco Bellocchio tells the story with a sure hand, skilfully recreating the period while tapping into the...
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May 23, 2023 · May 23, 2023 @ 3:39 PM. At a spry 83-years-old, director Marco Bellocchio is about 18 months the junior to last year’s Cannes acclaimed octogenarian, “EO” prizewinner Jerzy Skolimowski, though...
