IFC Films
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: B+
Directed by: Marco Bellocchio
Written By: Marco Bellocchio, Daniela Ceselli
Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon, Pier Giorgio
Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 12/14/09
Opens: March 19, 2010
Silvio Berlusconi, the current prime minister of Italy, had his nose broken by a man in the crowd on December 13. Considering the rising level of violence in that country recently, anyone with a sense of history will be reminded of Italy.s days under fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. The best news might have been that Mussolini had his nose.and other parts--broken by a partisan because Il Duce allied himself with the wrong guy during World War II. He got his comeuppance in .45, but his first wife and their son got the shaft early on.
At least that.s the way Marco Bellochio would have us believe in a film whose...
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: B+
Directed by: Marco Bellocchio
Written By: Marco Bellocchio, Daniela Ceselli
Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon, Pier Giorgio
Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 12/14/09
Opens: March 19, 2010
Silvio Berlusconi, the current prime minister of Italy, had his nose broken by a man in the crowd on December 13. Considering the rising level of violence in that country recently, anyone with a sense of history will be reminded of Italy.s days under fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. The best news might have been that Mussolini had his nose.and other parts--broken by a partisan because Il Duce allied himself with the wrong guy during World War II. He got his comeuppance in .45, but his first wife and their son got the shaft early on.
At least that.s the way Marco Bellochio would have us believe in a film whose...
- 12/22/2009
- Arizona Reporter
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