LACMA (Venue Partner)
5905 Wilshire Blvd
323.857.6000
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Vincere
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Saturday Feb 6, 2010 (7:30pm)
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Directions: LACMA is located on Wilshire Boulevard between Fairfax and Curson avenues—midway between Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica. From the Santa Monica Freeway (10), take Fairfax Avenue north 2 miles to Wilshire Boulevard.
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$10
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One of Italy's most highly regarded directors, Bellocchio was dubbed a master of "baroque" filmmaking in the mid-sixties with his first feature, Fists in the Pocket, a corrosive portrait of a dysfunctional upper-class family whose crazed, epileptic teenage son plots the death of his mother and brother. Though he directed thirty films during the next four decades, only a handful made it onto American screens, among them: China is Near, a stinging political satire that predicts the student revolutions of 1968; The Devil in the Flesh, a sexually explicit adaptation of the Stendahl novel updated to 1980s Italy; and Good Morning, Night, a stark depiction of the 1978 kidnapping of Prime Minister Aldo Moro as seen through the eyes of a young female terrorist. His newest film Vincere (“To Win”) was hailed as a masterpiece and a return to form following its premiere at the 2009 Cannes Festival. By bringing to light the horrifying—and little-known—story of Ida Dalser, the young Mussolini's first "wife," who is thrown into an asylum by Black Shirts when she demands official recognition for herself and their son, Bellocchio takes the audience on a descent into the black hole of fascism. With its striking style that combines newsreels, silent films, and expressionistic graphics, and highlighted by a harrowing performance by Giovanna Mezzogiorno, the film brilliantly evokes the madness that gripped Italy under Il Duce.
2009/color/128 min. | Scr/dir: Marco Bellocchio; w/ Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi. | Screening courtesy of IFC Films.
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
