| MUBI | Season Premiere Date: September 10, 2025 |
Summary:
Joe Wright directs the eight-part adaptation of Antonio Scurati's novel M. Il figlio del secolo (M. Son of the Century) about Benito Mussolini's (Luca Marinelli) career between 1919 and 1925.
[Premiered originally in the UK on Sky Atlantic 10 Jan 2025 and in the US on MUBI on 10 Sep 2025]
[Premiered originally in the UK on Sky Atlantic 10 Jan 2025 and in the US on MUBI on 10 Sep 2025]
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
Season 1 Episodes
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Sep 10, 2025
Collider
Aug 18, 2025
Oct 1, 2025
This is sensorial bombardment, sights and sounds that shouldn’t work together, let alone in a series meant to connect the failures of our past with the nightmare of our present. But through this elaborate mash-up, Wright creates the off-kilter atmosphere necessary to underscore the danger at hand.
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RogerEbert.com
Sep 10, 2025
Sep 10, 2025
He is the star of a darkly comic opera buffa, and “Son of the Century” presents it like a modern, multimedia Broadway production, which can be exhausting and bloodless but is rarely boring. And Wright and McGarvey’s images — their staging of debates in the vertiginous amphitheater of the Italian parliament, or of a Fascist mob storming into a production of “Madama Butterfly” — can be extraordinary.
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IndieWire
Sep 11, 2025
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Air Date: September 10, 2025
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