The story begins at a medieval dressing party. A man, dressed as the King Enrico IV, falls from his horse and hits his head. This causes him serious lesions and gets insane, believing he is really the KingRead More »
Marco Bellocchio
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Marco Bellocchio – Enrico IV (1984)
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Marco Bellocchio – Il Sogno della Farfalla AKA The Dream of the Butterfly (1994)
Drama1991-2000ArthouseItalyMarco BellocchioThe third and final collaboration between Marco Bellocchio and controversial pyschotherapist Massimo Faggioli following Il Diavolo in Corpo (1986) and La Condanna (1991). Despite being selected as an official entry in Cannes, some award nominations (which it won for its cinematography) and admiration in a few quarters, the film was condemned by the majoriry of critics who lamented Bellocchio’s talents being wasted by the pretentious Faggioli. Usually considered Bellocchio’s worst film, Il Sogno della Farfalla is undeniably well made and does contain some haunting imagery. Read More »
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Marco Bellocchio – Vacanze in Val Trebbia (1980)
1971-1980DocumentaryItalyMarco BellocchioTVSynopsis
Documentary-fiction about the director and his family’s holiday in his homeland. The journey is a means to confront the past, memories, one’s own origins, but it is also the radiography of an era.
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Marco Bellocchio – Gli occhi, la bocca AKA The Eyes, The Mouth (1982)
1981-1990DramaItalyMarco BellocchioBurned-out, over-the-hill actor Giovanni returns to Bologna for the funeral of his twin, Pippo, a wealthy suicide unlucky in love. The family tells Pippo’s mother it was an accident, but there’s a problem: Vanda, Pippo’s one-time fiancée, won’t grieve and refuses to come to the funeral. At a family dinner, Vanda talks about the note Peppo left. Again the family tries to keep mom in the dark. They assign Giovanni to persuade Vanda to keep up appearances. He sees her unhappy relationship with her father, who suspects her of sleeping with a doctor. Why she sees the doctor, how Giovanni and she deal with their mutual attraction, and his rebirth become the film’s focus.Read More »
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Marco Bellocchio – I pugni in tasca AKA Fists in the Pocket (1965) (HD)
1961-1970ArthouseDramaItalian Neo-RealismItalyMarco BellocchioSynopsis
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Marco Bellocchio – I pugni in tasca AKA Fists in the Pocket (1965)
1961-1970ArthouseDramaItalian Neo-RealismItalyMarco BellocchioQuote:
Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio. Charged by a coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, Fists in the Pocket (I pugni in tasca) was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema.Read More » -
Marco Bellocchio – Il traditore AKA The Traitor (2019)
Drama2011-2020CrimeItalyMarco BellocchioQuote:
The real life of Tommaso Buscetta the so called “boss of the two worlds”, first mafia informant in Sicily 1980’s.Read More » -
Marco Bellocchio – Bella addormentata AKA Dormant Beauty (2012)
2011-2020DramaItalyMarco BellocchioSynopsis:
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.Review:
Following a car accident, Eluana Englaro lay in a coma for 17 years. Doctors who assessed her described her as being in a persistent vegetative state, doomed never to awaken, but of course there were many who campaigned to keep her alive, whether in hope of a miracle or simply because they felt that what life she had left must be preserved. In February 2009, the decision was made to remove her feeding tube and allow her to die naturally. A court battle ensued, with the matter going all the way to parliament, exposing a deeply divided nation.Read More » -
Marco Bellocchio – La Visione del Sabba AKA The Witches’ Sabbath (1988)
1981-1990DramaItalyMarco BellocchioPlot: The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who’s on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she’s a witch and acted on behalf of the devil. The public health officer tells David, he’s got reason to believe her, that she’d been searching for a man who suits her needs for 300 years. Already after his first meeting with Maddalena, David begins to change: He ignores his beautiful young wife Cristina and loses himself in daydreams and hallucinations in which he participates in Inquisition questioning and erotic witches’ circles.Read More »