A coveted present for some and a reminder of regrets for others, the lovely red rose is rich with meaning in Marco Bellocchio’s multi-generational portrait of Bobbio, Italy. Contrasting the idealism of youth with mid-life discontent, this magnetic short crafts a sweet bouquet of human experiences.
A stunning directorial comeback, Marco Bellocchio’s darkly comic marvel won Michel Piccoli and Anouk Aimée top acting prizes at Cannes. Paralleling familial dysfunction with societal ills, this acerbic exploration of monstrous masculinity dares to expose the moral rot of Italy’s legislative system.
Across 6 decades Italian maestro Marco Bellocchio has made some of the great masterworks of his homeland’s cinema—this sublime 2016 entry finds him in a tender register, examining the eternal bonds between mother and son. A perceptive look at the ties that bind and the long shadow cast by childhood.
A young partisan drifts through clashing epochs in Marco Bellocchio’s magical-realist short, a poignant ode to the 1940s resistance movement in his Italian hometown of Bobbio. At once a historical witness and a symbol of rebirth, the beautiful Trebbia river provides a beguiling portal to the past.
Winner of the FIPRESCI award, this haunting portmanteau from director Marco Bellocchio is a shrewd social commentary steeped in striking gothic imagery. Set in a convent-prison, the film shifts from past to present, crafting a story that is a love letter to Italy’s past and a critique of its stasis.
