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Marco Bellocchio Talks Controversies, Feud With Luis Buñuel Over ‘Fists in the Pocket’
Italian director Marco Bellocchio relives past controversies at IFFR, feud with Luis Buñuel over ‘Fists in the Pocket.’
“Yesterday, after the screening of ‘Kidnapped,’ one person was upset by the scene where the old cardinal takes a small hammer and hits the pope on the head several times, declaring him dead. It seems small, but it condenses centuries of rituals in the Church,” he said, also mentioning his acclaimed take on the murder of politician Aldo Moro in “Good Morning, Night.” “I was still a militant Marxist-Leninist and told him, rather superficially, that a solution to his unhappiness could be ‘political revolution.’ He said, smiling with pain and some dose of sarcasm: ‘Listen, I have other problems.
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