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Marx Can Wait

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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.

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Anthony Lane The New Yorker 07/21/2022
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. Go to Full Review A.O. Scott New York Times 07/14/2022
“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. Go to Full Review Dan Callahan TheWrap 07/14/2022
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. Go to Full Review Armond White National Review 07/15/2022
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. Go to Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 07/11/2022
Intimate, honest and poignant. A heartfelt, unflinching and profound documentary that displays Marco Bellocchio's emotional maturity, wisdom, compassion, empathy and introspectiveness. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Alec B @Alec97 02/26/2024 A moving portrait of memory and the kinds of deeply sad regrets that haunt all families. See more Read all reviews
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Marco Bellocchio

Director

Marco Bellocchio

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Marco Bellocchio

Screenwriter

Simone Gattoni

Producer

Beppe Caschetto

Producer

Michel Merkt

Executive Producer

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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
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