Die schon traditionelle italienische Retrospektive/Hommage – in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Italienischen Kulturinstitut Berlin – ist wieder da! Die Filmreihe ist dieses Jahr Marco Bellocchio gewidmet
Sandra, a German writer, lives with her husband Samuel and their visuallyimpaired son Daniel in a remote mountain chalet in the French Alps. When Samuel falls to his death in mysterious circumstances, the investigation cannot determine whether it’s suicide or foul play. Sandra is ultimately arrested for murder and the trial puts their tumultuous relationship and her ambiguous personality under the microscope. As her young son takes to the stand, doubt starts creeping in between them.
In his most achingly personal film to date, legendary Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio uses the occasion of a family reunion in his hometown of Piacenza to excavate and discuss a traumatic event: the death his twin brother Camillo, who committed suicide in the late '60s at age 29. Through detailed conversations with his siblings, archival footage providing context about 20th-century Italian leftist politics, and occasional clips from his films, many of which were in some way imbued with this defining family tragedy, Bellocchio conducts a personal and historical exorcism. Reckoning with the push-pull the director has long felt between the twin poles of family and politics, Marx Can Wait is an attempt at reconciliation and understanding from a filmmaker in his eighties whose work has never shied away from the challenging or the provocative.
Everyone pursues their fantasy without ever getting hold of it. For some it's a dream of easy money, for others the search for a past love... Back in his small town on the Tyrrhenian Sea, Arthur (Josh O'Connor) meets his Tombaroli gang, who plunder Etruscan tombs and archaeological wonders. Arthur has a gift that he uses for his robber friends: he senses the void. The emptiness of the earth, in which the remains of a past world lie. The same emptiness that the memory of his lost love Beniamina has left in him.
