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Marx Can Wait

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Family · Coming of Age

CountryItaly
Production Year2021
Running Time91min
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ColorColor

Program Note

Everybody has a memory that they don′t want to reveal to anyone, and every family has a painful history that they can′t talk about easily. With Marx Can Wait, Marco Bellocchio returns to his own past—the story of his twin brother, who killed himself at the age of twenty-nine. The testimony of family and friends, faded photographs, and 8-millimeter film clips sensitively reveal the story of the young man who lost his way. The deceased appears as a ghost in the director′s previous films such as Fists in the Pocket (1965); The Eyes, The Mouth (1982); My Mother′s Smile (2002), and in others as a child. The master knows well that meeting the twin brother who committed suicide a long time ago will force him to eventually look into himself. Marx Can Wait which may have been a painful rite of passage for an 82-year-old master, is more painful and deeper than any other Bellocchio′s movie. (SEO Seunghee)

Director

Marco BELLOCCHIO

Born in 1939 in Italy, Bellocchio is a master director who is still actively engaging in filmmaking. His debut feature film, Fists in the Pocket (1965), won an award at Locarno Film Festival in 1965 and garnered him international recognition. His filmography includes many masterpieces including A Leap in the Dark (1980), The Prince of Homburg (1997), and The Wedding Director (2006) to name a few. In 2011 he received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Film Festival. His work has been the subject of dozens of retrospectives around the world, including at MoMA in 2014 to commemorate his then fifty years of filmmaking, at the Festival International du Film de la Rochelle in 2015, and in 2018 at the British Film Institute. His recent work Sweet Dreams (2016) was the opening film of the Director′s Fortnight and The Traitor was In Competition at Cannes Film Festival. In 2021, he received the Honorary Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival.

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