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Originally Posted by David
I almost saw that one at last year's Palm Springs film festival, but it was in the evening & I was tired.
"Fists" & "China Is Near" have been on my list of favorites for several years. Bellocchio is underappreciated & underseen in the United States, even back in the late 1960s when he got good reviews from Pauline Kael, John Simon, Stanley Kauffmann & even Dwight Macdonald.
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Right now for me he is one of the four best living Italian directors, with Nanni Moretti and Gianni Amelio, Bernardo Bertolucci. For about ten years he seemed lost because he started writing movies with his psychoanalist and everything came out from him was silly and pointless. Then with The Prince of Homburg he returned stronger and more inspired thn ever even if he's now quite different from the man who directed Fists and China is Near. He's less angry but more consistent and provocative. Every movie he did in the last 8 years (The Nanny, My Mother's Smile, Buongiorno, notte) was beautiful and enlightining in some way. I'm very curious to see his new one Il regista di matrimoni (The marriages' director).
Romy
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