Marx Can Wait

Play trailer

Marx Can Wait

Released Jul 15, 2022

1h 35m

Documentary

Play Trailer

Watchlist

Watchlist

Tomatometer

Popcornmeter

100%

Tomatometer

15 Reviews

Popcornmeter

Fewer than 50 Ratings

1968 was the year Camillo died. Nearly 50 years after the death of his twin brother at the age of 29, Marco Bellocchio gathers his family to reconstruct Camillo's disappearance. Combining intimate conversations with the Bellocchio family and those who knew Camillo best with archival material, family movies and his own oeuvre, Marco attempts to manifest a ghost he has been dealing with his entire life. What begins as a family conversation morphs into an investigation of grief, guilt and responsibility, compassion, empathy and love.

Anthony Lane

The New Yorker

Bellocchio deals in the deeply personal yet somehow not in the private; there is a vital robustness to his methods, and the new film, despite facing intractable problems from long ago... feels sociable and even touched with laughter.

Jul 21, 2022

Full Review

A.O. Scott

New York Times

“Marx Can Wait” is entirely absorbed in the faces, voices and personalities of Bellocchio’s brothers and sisters, present and absent, but it also feels, by implication or osmosis, to be telling the story of Italy in the past half century.

Jul 14, 2022

Full Review

Dan Callahan

TheWrap

A crucial and profound addition to the filmography of one of the greatest living filmmakers, and it ends with a loving reconciliation with the past that is so moving and so convincing because it is so hard-won.

Jul 14, 2022

Full Review

Juan Pablo Russo

EscribiendoCine

Marx Can Wait becomes Bellocchio's intimate and moving testimony, who seeks to share the complexity of his creative process and how the loss of his twin brother has left an indelible footprint in his life and work. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 8/10

May 24, 2023

Full Review

Armond White

National Review

Religion stays with Bellocchio, as does imagination and ingenuity, which makes Marx Can Wait an extraordinary document of the moral evolution of an artist and his family.

Jul 15, 2022

Full Review

Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

Intimate, honest and poignant. A heartfelt, unflinching and profound documentary that displays Marco Bellocchio's emotional maturity, wisdom, compassion, empathy and introspectiveness.

Jul 11, 2022

Full Review

Read all reviews

Alec B

A moving portrait of memory and the kinds of deeply sad regrets that haunt all families.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/24

Full Review

Read all reviews

Read More

Read Less

POST RATING

WRITE A REVIEW

EDIT REVIEW

Marco Bellocchio

Director

Marco Bellocchio

Self

Marco Bellocchio

Screenwriter

Simone Gattoni

Producer

Beppe Caschetto

Producer

Michel Merkt

Executive Producer

Show Less Cast & Crew

Show More Cast & Crew

Fragments of Paradise

100%

%

Fragments of Paradise

Watchlist

Jimmy in Saigon

86%

%

Jimmy in Saigon

Watchlist

Rudy! A Documusical

20%

%

Rudy! A Documusical

Watchlist

Otto Baxter: Not a Fucking Horror Story

100%

%

Otto Baxter: Not a Fucking Horror Story

Watchlist

Electric Malady

83%

%

Electric Malady

Watchlist

Discover more movies and TV shows.

View More

View more photos

Synopsis

1968 was the year Camillo died. Nearly 50 years after the death of his twin brother at the age of 29, Marco Bellocchio gathers his family to reconstruct Camillo's disappearance. Combining intimate conversations with the Bellocchio family and those who knew Camillo best with archival material, family movies and his own oeuvre, Marco attempts to manifest a ghost he has been dealing with his entire life. What begins as a family conversation morphs into an investigation of grief, guilt and responsibility, compassion, empathy and love.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Producer: Simone Gattoni, Beppe Caschetto
Screenwriter: Marco Bellocchio
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 15, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 1h 35m