Synopsis
The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws.
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Cast
- Giovanna MezzogiornoIda Dalser
- Filippo TimiBenito Mussolini
- Corrado InvernizziDottor Cappelletti
- Fausto Russo AlesiRiccardo Paicher
- Michela CesconRachele Guidi
- Pier Giorgio BellocchioPietro Fedele
- Paolo PierobonGiulio Bernardi
- Bruno CarielloGiudice
- Francesca PicozzaAdelina Dalser
- Simona NobiliMadre Superiora
Recommendations
- 100
Variety
It's a thrilling, at times brilliant piece of staging that never forgets the emotional pull of either the tragic personal tale or the ramifications of history. - 100
Village Voice
Vincere, though, is the veteran director's stylistic knockout, a movie whose audacious editing fully captures the hot and heavy relationships between past and present, sex and politics, reality and, yes, cinema. - 90
The New York Times
A sustained, alternatingly exhausting and aesthetically exhilarating howl of a film. - 83
The A.V. Club
Vincere starts to run dry of stunning visual gambits and become redundant in its second hour, as the madhouse sequences dominate, but Bellocchio’s central premise retains its power and poignancy throughout. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
The director also pulls career-high performances from Mezzogiorno and Timi that are, respectively, tragic and mesmerizing. - 80
The New Yorker
Bellocchio gets the opera-buffa and the carnival side of Italian Fascism, and parts of the movie are excruciatingly funny. - 80
Time Out
Almost as an afterthought to the ringingly true performances--and Marco Bellocchio’s unusually approachable direction--comes a deft analysis of fascism, likened to lovesickness, insanity and a gust of orchestral strings. It’s all of that and more, not to mention a lousy matchmaker. - 75
New York Post
Daniele Cipri's highly stylized lensing and Carlo Crivelli's bold score add to the movie's flamboyant aura. But then, the story of a bombastic dictator deserves a bombastic telling.
