MARCO BELLOCCHIO 28 book online at bfi.org.uk
TUE 24 JUL SUN 29 JUL
20:40 NFT2 17:40 NFT2
WED 25 JUL TUE 31 JUL
20:35 NFT2 18:05 NFT2
Sweet Dreams Fai bei sogni
Italy-France 2016. Dir Marco Bellocchio.
With Valerio Mastandrea, Bérénice Bejo,
Fabrizio Gifuni. 131min. Digital. EST. 12A
Marco Bellocchio’s most recent movie
is a stylish, affecting adaptation of
the contemporary Italian novel
by Massimo Gramellini. Sensitively
depicting Massimo, a journalist
whose whole life has been emotionally
blighted by the mysterious death of
his mother when he was a young boy,
Sweet Dreams gradually shows how
his exploration of the past starts to
cathartically change his present.
Also screens on Sun 24 Jun
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TUE 31 JUL
20:40 NFT2
Blood of My Blood Sangue del mio sangue
Italy-France-Switzerland 2015. Dir Marco Bellocchio. With Pier Giorgio Bellocchio,
Roberto Herlitzka, Alba Rohrwacher. 106min. Digital. EST
A beguiling, two-part movie set in
Bellocchio’s home town: one part
is an historic drama showing the
brutality of an unjust witch trial
(a return to subject matter explored
in 1988’s The Witches’ Sabbath);
the other is a contemporary black
comedy about a mysterious man
(who may or may not be a vampire)
trying to fend off a con artist.
+ Pagliacci
Italy 2016. Dir Marco Bellocchio. 18min. EST
At a rich woman’s house, the family
gathers for a performance of the
Ruggero Leoncavallo opera.
Sorelle Mai
Italy 2010. Dir Marco Bellocchio.
With Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Elena Bellocchio,
Donatella Finocchiaro. 105min. 35mm EST
A young girl is being looked after
by her father’s two sisters in the
countryside, while her mother
works as an actress in Milan. Set in
Bellocchio’s home town of Bobbio,
and his family house, this actually
uses documentary footage shot over
many years (of the director’s children
and close family members) to create
a unique work of fiction.
Image: Simone Martinetto
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