Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio | |
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Born | Bobbio, Italy | 9 November 1939
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, actor |
Years active | 1962–present |
Marco Bellocchio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko belˈlɔkkjo]; born 9 November 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor.
Life and career
Born in
Films
Bellocchio's films include
In 1991 he won the
In 1995 he directed a documentary about the Red Brigades and the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, titled Broken Dreams. In 2003, he directed a feature film on the same theme, Good Morning, Night. In 2006 his film The Wedding Director was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[4] In 1999, he was awarded with an Honorable Prize for the contribution to cinema at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.[5]
In 2009 he directed Vincere, which was in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. He finished Sorelle Mai, an experimental film that was shot over ten years with the students of six separate workshops playing themselves. He was awarded with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September 2011.[6]
His 2012 film
Political activity
Bellocchio made a big impact on radical Italian cinema in the mid-1960s, and was a friend of
"I can talk about my personal ideas but Marxism has little to do with it now. Today politics means administration, either a good or a bad administration, and nobody is talking any more in terms of changing things. The left in Italy is now very divided, as if it doesn't have the strength to form an opposition. No party is now proposing a radical change of anything, and radical change is no longer very interesting to me as an artist."
In another interview conducted in London Film Festival of 2006, he insisted still being a leftist, but argued for a need to reinvent the term:[10]
In Italy politics is pretty mediocre and depressing. It is not the same situation as in the 60s when you had the idea to change the society through politics that doesn't exist anymore. It is not necessarily to make Italy into socialist republic but in any case to change a few things radically. Because in Italy like the rest of Europe politics now is more based on running a public administration and so there is not a big difference between left and right. [...] I am still on the left but socialism and the left should be reinvented. It is difficult. Basically old values are invalid anymore and we have to find new ones."
He was candidate for Italian Parliament in 2006, with Rose in the Fist list, a political cartel made by socialists and Italian Radicals (a liberal, social liberal and libertarian party).
He is an atheist.[11]
Filmography
Director
- La colpa e la pena (1961)
- Fists in the Pocket (1965)
- China Is Near (1967)
- Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (1972)
- Victory March (1976)
- Il gabbiano (1977)
- A Leap in the Dark (1980)
- The Eyes, the Mouth (1982)
- Henry IV (1984)
- Devil in the Flesh (1986)
- The Witches' Sabbath (1988)
- The Conviction (1991)
- The Butterfly's Dream (1994)
- The Prince of Homburg (1996)
- The Nanny (1999)
- My Mother's Smile (2002)
- Good Morning, Night (2003)
- The Wedding Director (2006)
- Vincere (2009)
- Dormant Beauty (2012)
- Blood of My Blood (2015)
- Sweet Dreams (2017)
- The Traitor (2019)
- Marx Can Wait (2021)
- Exterior Night (2022)
- Kidnapped (2023)
Writer
- Abbasso il zio (1961)
- La colpa e la pena (1961)
- Il ginepro fatto uomo (1962)
- Fists in the Pocket (1965)
- China is Near(1967)
- Il popolo calabrese ha rialzato la testa (1969) – co-direction
- Viva il 1º maggio rosso proletario (1969) – co-direction
- Discutiamo, discutiamo, episode of Love and Anger (1969) – co-direction
- Nel nome del padre (1972)
- Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (1972)
- Matti da slegare (1975), co-directed with Silvano Agosti, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli
- Victory March (1976)
- Il gabbiano (1977)
- La macchina cinema (1979), co-directed with Silvano Agosti, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli
- A Leap in the Dark (1980)
- Vacanze in Val Trebbia (1980)
- The Eyes, the Mouth (1982)
- Henry IV (1984)
- Devil in the Flesh (1986)
- The Witches' Sabbath (1988)
- The Conviction (1991)
- The Butterfly's Dream (1994)
- Sogni infranti (1995) – TV documentary
- The Prince of Homburg (1996)
- La religione della storia (1998) – TV documentary
- The Nanny (1999)
- L'affresco (2000)
- Elena (2002)
- Appunti per un film su Zio Vanja (2002)
- Addio del passato (2002)
- My Mother's Smile (2002)
- Good Morning, Night (2003)
- The Wedding Director (2006)
- Sorelle (2006)
- Vincere (2009)
- Sorelle Mai (2010)
- Dormant Beauty (2012)
- Blood of My Blood (2015)
- Sweet Dreams (2016)
- The Traitor (2019)
- Marx can wait (2021)
- Esterno Notte (2022)
- Kidnapped (2023)
Actor
- Francesco di Assisi (1966) – Pietro
- Love and Anger (1969) - Lecturer (segment "Discutiamo discutiamo")
- N.P. (1971) - Preacher (voice)
- Pianeta Venere (1972)
- The Canterbury Tales (1972) - voice of the greedy friar in the Summoner's Tale
- Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (1972) - Giornalista Conferenza (uncredited)
- Tutto in comune (1974)
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) - The President (voice, uncredited)
- Il gabbiano (1977) - Servant (uncredited)
- Vacanze in Val Trebbia (1980) - Il marito
- L'ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) (2002)
Awards and nominations
References
- ^ The Independent Review, p. 14, 15 November 2002
- ^ "Marco Bellocchio". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1991 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Wedding Director". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 15 December 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "21st Moscow International Film Festival (1999)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ^ "Cannes Film Festival to honour jailed Iranian directors". BBC News. 11 May 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
- ^ "Venezia 69". labiennale. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- ^ "Anger Bellocchio on Venice jury".
- ^ Clarke, Roger (15 November 2002). "Marco Bellocchio: Mother love?". The Independent. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ Jahed, Parviz (5 July 2022). "Socialism and the Left Should Be Reinvented, Interview with Marco Bellocchio". Universal Cinema. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ "Interview to Studiocinema". Archived from the original on 26 March 2012.
- ^ "Palma d'Oro d'Onore a Marco Bellocchio" (in Italian).
- ^ "Marco Bellocchio" (in Italian).
- ^ "Leone d'oro alla carriera a Marco Bellocchio" (in Italian).
- ^ "Personaggi - Marco Bellocchio" (in Italian).
- ^ "Personaggi - Marco Bellocchio" (in Italian).
External links
- Marco Bellocchio at IMDb