Tag: Fausto Russo Alesi
Children of the Monkey (I figli della scimmia) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Favorited Son: Landucci Looks at How Love Can Tear Us Apart
While it never explicitly dwells on the feeling that the film's patriarch may...
Duse | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review
Distress Becomes Her: Marcello Delivers a Diva’s Final Act
For many, Duse, the latest feature from Italian director Pietro Marcello, will serve as their introduction...
Sicilian Letters (Iddu) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Letters to Daddy: Grassadonia & Piazza Continue Their Cosa Nostra Sagas
Italian directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza reimagine the circumstances surrounding yet another mafioso...
Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
If we don't count the pandemic year, it will be four consecutive showings in Cannes for the maestro. The Traitor was in competition in...
Kidnapped (Rapito) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Soul to Take: Bellocchio Deliriously Dissects a Papal Delictum
Marco Bellocchio has lost none of his flair nor his energetic zest in his latest...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #13. Marco Bellocchio’s La conversione
La conversione
The true story has put the fear of god in the directors who consider making it, but finally, it was Italian maestro Marco...
Esterno notte (Exterior Night) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Dead in Red: Bellocchio Returns to Infamous Kidnapping for Television Debut
In his continuation in recuperating fantastical elements of Italian political and criminal history, Marco...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #32. The Traitor – Marco Bellocchio
The Traitor
Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, whose radical early works were a seminal part of 1960s and 1970s Italian cinema, embarks on his latest feature...
