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Kidnapped review – powerfully enraging real-life drama of Vatican abduction of a Jewish boy

The story of Edgardo Mortara, removed from his family by the Catholic church in 1850s Bologna, is told with elegant restraint by veteran director Marco Bellocchio

The Guardian - UK

‘As with all such moments, there are innocent victims’: Marco Bellocchio on his new film about the notorious kidnapping of a Jewish child

The octogenarian director, whose latest film dramatises the 19th-century abduction of Edgardo Mortara by the Vatican, has been plumbing the depths of the Italian psyche on screen for the past 60 years – and worries for the future of cinema

The Guardian - UK

Cannes serves up a parade of ageing maestros and a Tarantino masterclass

The final stretch of the world’s premier film festival has seen Cannes roll out the red carpet for a cavalcade of veteran auteurs, including two-time Palme d’Or laureate Ken Loach, past winners Wim Wenders and Nanni Moretti, and fellow Italian Marco Bellocchio, whose magnificent “Kidnapped” joined the list of frontrunners…

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Kidnapped review – Marco Bellocchio’s antisemitism drama is a classic in the making

Based on the true story of a young Jewish boy kidnapped by papal authorities, this is a full-tilt melodrama that lays bare tyranny, bigotry and the abuse of power in the Catholic church

The Guardian - UK

'Esterno Notte': Marco Bellochio's series grapples with ghost of assassinated Italian prime minister Aldo Moro

Central Rome, 9 May 1978. A crowd of curious passersby spills out by an open car boot. There lies the bullet-riddled body of Aldo Moro, Italy’s Prime Minister, parked mid-way between the party headquarters of the Christian Democrats and those of the Communist Party. The scene concludes 55 days of…

The Conversation

Jude Law’s Henry VIII, Alicia Vikander’s Catherine Parr – and Johnny Depp as Louis XV: Cannes again lays on a king’s banquet

This year’s Cannes reveal does not disappoint: Scorsese, Glazer, Loach – and the prospect of a lot of powdered wigs

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