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Marx Can Wait

Released Jul 15, 2022 1h 35m Documentary List
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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. Read More Read Less

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Anthony Lane 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
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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