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.
- Vincere 2009
- Good Morning, Night 2003
- The Wedding Director 2006
- Devil in the Flesh 1986
- Victory March 1976
- Henry IV 1984
- My Mother's Smile 2002
- Fists in the Pocket 1965
- In the Name of the Father 1971
- Slap the Monster on Page One 1972
- Love and Anger 1969
- China Is Near 1967
- Leap Into the Void 1980
- Sorelle Mai 2011
- The Prince of Homburg 1997
- Dormant Beauty 2012
- The Eyes, the Mouth 1982
- The Nanny 1999
- The Witches' Sabbath 1988
- The Conviction 1991
- Fit to Be Untied 1975
- The Seagull 1977
- Blood of My Blood 2015
- The Butterfly's Dream 1994
- Sweet Dreams 2016
- The Traitor 2019
- Marx Can Wait 2021
- Kidnapped 2023
- Esterno Notte (part I) 2022
- Esterno Notte (part I) 2022