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DEVIL IN THE FLESH
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Although the theme has been done many times, Marco Bellocchio managed to shock the international festival circuit with his notoriously explicit oral sex scene between Maruschka Detmers and Federico Pitzalis. Devil in the Flesh, wrote Variety, is "paradoxically one of the funniest, lightest works Bellocchio has come up with in some time. Yes, eroticism is a key theme, and thanks to an electrifying performance by Detmers, sparks fly in all directions." Andrea is quietly studying in his last year in high school when Giulia (Detmers) comes into his life. Marco Bellocchio---Italy---1986---110 mins.
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FISTS IN THE POCKET
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Director Marco Bellocchio began his career auspiciously with this unrelentingly bleak and harrowing work of Italian Neo-Realism. Unjustly ignored for decades, the drama paints a powerful portrait of a family wracked by illness, infidelity, suspicion, and depravity. Plagued by his relatives, Augusto (Marino Mase) is loathe to marry for fear of saddling his new bride with incorrigible in-laws. In an act of misguided sympathy, Augusto's brother Alessandro (Lou Castel) plots to murder his relatives as a means for freeing his brother. In Italian with English subtitles. Marco Bellocchio---Italy---1965---105 mins.
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GOOD MORNING, NIGHT
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A restrained and sobering study of the 1978 kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Marco Bellocchio's (Fist in the Pocket) historical drama assumes the point-of-view of a female member of the terrorist organization who plotted the radical coup. As Chiara (Maya Sansa) grows sympathetic to the hapless Moro, she finds herself drawn to a leftist activist who condemns the Red Brigade's violent tactics. Bellochio evocatively depicts a situation in which ideological passion and personal conviction become mutually untenable. "Part reality, part fantasy and all compassion" (Andrew Sarris, New York Observer). In Italian with English subtitles. Marco Bellocchio---Italy---2003---106 mins.
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HENRY IV (BELLOCCHIO)
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Pirandello's classic play, gorgeously directed by Marco Bellocchio (Fists in the Pocket), stars Marcello Mastroianni as the aristocrat who falls off a horse and believes himself to be the medieval French emperor, Henry IV. A fabulous investigation of delusion with a playful musical score by tango legend Astor Piazzola. Also stars Claudia Cardinale. In Italian with English subtitles. Marco Bellocchio---Italy---1984---94 mins.
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MY MOTHER'S SMILE
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Though the Roman Catholic Church deemed it blasphemous, most critics were in awe of this masterly, provocative drama from Marco Bellocchio (Fist in the Pocket). Sergio Castellitto stars as Ernesto, a painter and avowed atheist who is stunned when he discovers that the Vatican is considering making his mother a saint. Summoned to testify as to her worthiness for beatification, Ernesto is forced to confront his deep-seeded hatred for the stern and unaffectionate woman. "Uncannily human and deeply humanist" (Village Voice). In Italian with English subtitles. Marco Bellocchio---Italy---2002---102 mins.
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PRINCE OF HOMBURG (BELLOCCHIO)
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Marco Bellocchio (Henry IV) directs this haunting period piece based on the play by Heinrich von Kleist and starring Andrea Di Stefano (Before Night Falls) in the title role. Set in 17th century Germany during the Thirty Years War, Bellocchio tells the tale of the Prince of Homburg, a man torn between his affection for his commander's niece and his duties as a general in the cavalry. In Italian with English subtitles. Marco Bellocchio---Italy---1997---89 mins.
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VINCERE
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In Marco Bellocchio's fiery historical melodrama, a pretty girl named Ida (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) falls for a young union organizer (Filippo Timi), who the world will come to know as Benito Mussolini. As his influence grows, she (and their lovechild) is cast aside. "Beautifully well-mounted...provides a counterpoint to the usual caricature of Mussolini" (Roger Ebert).
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