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‘M. Son Of The Century’ Review: Joe Wright’s Mussolini Series Brilliantly Depicts How Banal Evil Gets Its Way- Venice Film Festival
‘M. Son Of The Century’ review: Director Joe Wright’s Mussolini series is a sobering warning of how banal evil gets its way — Venice Film Festival.
A preening bully, Benito Mussolini strikes an absurd figure in old newsreels, thumping his fist in the air, his chin and chest both puffed out; Winston Churchill dubbed him “the bullfrog of the Pontine marshes.” He is all for the striking farm workers until the bourgeois landowners offer to finance his bankrupt newspaper; the goons are duly despatched to kill, maim or torture every honest son of the soil they can string up in the hay barn. There is a wonderful scene where his mistress Margherita (Barbara Chichiarelli), a rich Jewish socialite with a perverse lust for chaos, presents him with a parting gift: a vast bust, the head like a boulder, of Mussolini himself.
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