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Marco Bellocchio to Be Honored With Major Retrospective by Toronto Film Festival’s TIFF Cinematheque (EXCLUSIVE)
Marco Bellocchio is being honored with a major retrospective by the Toronto Film Festival’s TIFF Cinematheque.
Ever since “Fists,” Bellocchio has “with varying styles, delved head-on into the complexities of recent Italian history, fearlessly exploring the impacts of institutions — family, state and church — upon the individual, and political subversion,” TIFF Cinematheque said in a statement. Bellocchio made his mark in Cannes with psychological drama “A Leap in the Dark” (1980) which won best actor and actress honors for stars Michel Piccoli and Anouk Aimée, with the latter playing a woman fraught with depression and fantasies of suicide. More recently, in 2019, Bellocchio made “The Traitor,” about the first high-ranking member of Cosa Nostra to break the Sicilian Mafia’s oath of silence, a big-budget epic released in the U.S. by Sony Pictures Classics.
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