MARCO BELLOCCHIO
DIRECTING
Marco Bellocchio (Italian: [ˈmarko belˈlɔkkjo]; born 9 November 1939; Bobbio) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor.
Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schoolteacher.
He began studying philosophy in Milan but then decided to enter film school, making his first film, Fists in the Pocket, (I pugni in tasca, winner of the Silver Sail at the 1965 Festival del film Locarno), funded by family members and shot on family property, in 1965.
Bellocchio's films include China Is Near (1967), Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (Slap the Monster on Page One) (1972), Nel Nome del Padre (In the name of the Father – a satire on a Catholic boarding school that shares affinities with Lindsay Anderson's If....) (1972), Victory March (1976), A Leap in the Dark (1980), Henry IV (1984), Devil in the Flesh (1986), and My Mother's Smile (2002), which told the story of a wealthy Italian artist, a 'default-Marxist and atheist', who suddenly discovers that the Vatican is proposing to make his detested mother a saint.
- Vincere2009
- Good Morning, Night2003
- The Wedding Director2006
- Devil in the Flesh1986
- Victory March1976
- Henry IV1984
- My Mother's Smile2002
- Fists in the Pocket1965
- In the Name of the Father1971
- Slap the Monster on Page One1972
- Love and Anger1969
- China Is Near1967
- Leap Into the Void1980
- Sorelle Mai2011
- The Prince of Homburg1997
- Dormant Beauty2012
- The Eyes, the Mouth1982
- The Nanny1999
- The Witches' Sabbath1988
- The Conviction1991
- Fit to Be Untied1975
- The Seagull1977
- Blood of My Blood2015
- The Butterfly's Dream1994
- Sweet Dreams2016
- The Traitor2019
- Marx Can Wait2021
- Kidnapped2023
- Esterno Notte (part I)2022
- Esterno Notte (part I)2022