Marx Can Wait

Name: Marx Can Wait
Genre: Documentary
Released: December 15, 2021
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 84
Cast: Alberto Bellocchio, Elena Bellocchio, Francesco Bellocchio, Gianni Schicchi, Giovanna Capra

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: December 15, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Alberto Bellocchio, Elena Bellocchio, Francesco Bellocchio, Gianni Schicchi, Giovanna Capra, Letizia Bellocchio, Marco Bellocchio, Maria Luisa Bellocchio, Pia Bareggi, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Piergiorgio Bellocchio, Virgilio Fantuzzi

Summary: 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 attempts1968 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 on grief, guilt and responsibility, compassion, empathy, and love.… Expand

Director: Marco Bellocchio

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Dan Callahan

Jul 14, 2022

Marx Can Wait is 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; this is a movie that has a rare kind of final cathartic authority. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Dec 29, 2021

Straightforward in concept yet psychologically profound, the film draws the audience in with a lingering sadness made more potent by the director’s clear yet unspoken sense of guilt. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Jul 14, 2022

It’s a complicated and painful story, humanely and sensitively told. Read full review

Robert Abele

Dec 29, 2021

Even at its most emotionally awkward or loose, it signals a filmmaking sensibility where Bellocchio — whose nearly 60-year career has been built on a provocative rendering of the social and political fractures around him — is refreshingly averse to viewing his own past through rose-colored glasses. Read full review

Jake Cole

Jul 7, 2022

Marco Bellocchio uses his film, a delicate mix of biography and autobiography, as the catalyst for long-delayed therapy. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Dec 29, 2021

Bellocchio’s motives for making the film are in part to make sense of the events, in part, one suspects, to exorcise a lingering sense of survivor’s guilt. Yet for all the laudable intentions, Camillo still gets slightly lost in the rambling anecdotes, padding and extraneous details. Read full review

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