Good Morning, Night

Name: Good Morning, Night
Genre: Drama
Released: November 11, 2005
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 69

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Wellspring Media | Release Date: November 11, 2005

Summary: The 1978 kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro, Italy's former prime minister and head of the Christian Democrat party, was a cataclysmic event no Italian can forget. Marco Bellocchio turns to this troubled period of Italian history in Good Morning, Night, producing a film of immense complexity and devastating emotional power. [Wellspring Media]

Director: Marco Bellocchio

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 106 min

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V.A. Musetto

Combining a thoughtful script with splendid acting -- especially by Sansa -- Bellocchio has fashioned a tense thriller that is both understated and powerful. Read full review

Stanley Kauffmann

Bellochio, who began his career in 1965, has made some of the most trenchant Italian films on political themes, and Good Morning, Night is one more of them. Read full review

David Rooney

Numerous filmmakers have attempted to dramatize the terrorist activity that gripped Italy in the 1970s, but few have done so with the unsettling power of Marco Bellocchio's Good Morning, Night. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

It's a strange and murky movie, at times a frustrating one, but I also found it profoundly moving in a way no regular thriller ever is. Read full review

J. Hoberman

Like its oxymoronic title, Good Morning, Night is sober yet filled with fancy. There's a wistful aspect to the movie. Read full review

Dana Stevens

At times Good Morning, Night feels as claustrophobic as the apartment itself, and you may feel that the director is handling his volatile material with a bit too much delicacy. But the movie's atmosphere is a curious mixture of obliqueness and intensity. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

It has been called both detached and loaded, unfairly slanted as well as balanced by some of its critics--I can only testify that I found the film both troubling and absorbing over two separate viewings. Read full review

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ChadS.

May 10, 2006

"Good Morning Night" avoids a Hollywood ending, which is admirable, but it's conclusion is so anti-climactic, some may pine for a little political thriller-know how. What this ultimately disappointing film has going for it is a nice performance from Maya Sansa (as Chiara), who looks "Good Morning Night" avoids a Hollywood ending, which is admirable, but it's conclusion is so anti-climactic, some may pine for a little political thriller-know how. What this ultimately disappointing film has going for it is a nice performance from Maya Sansa (as Chiara), who looks like an Italian Phoebe Cates, sort of. As to the answer for the question, "Is she, or is she not, a good revolutionary?" remains enigmatic because we're not sure what is dream, and what is reality.… Expand

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