Dormant Beauty

[A] film of sparkling intelligence…turning a real-life Italian national drama into engrossing narrative for sophisticated audiences.
-- Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter

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Dormant Beauty

The multilayered narrative of Marco Bellocchio’s latest film is constructed around Italy’s equivalent of the Terri Schiavo case, a legal struggle around the fate of a woman, Eluana Englaro, suspended in a vegetative coma for 17 years. Each story plays out on a different stylistic level: domestic drama (a liberal senator risks losing the love of his deeply religious daughter), social realism (a young doctor struggles to save a drug addict from herself), and operatic delirium (a famous actress creates a theatrical spectacle around her own daughter, a young woman kept alive by a respirator).

“Well-written, beautifully performed… there’s real humanity and tenderness.” - Olivier Lyttelton, IndieWire

“[A] thought-provoking exploration of life, love and politics.” - Variety
Not Rated
Genre
Drama
Runtime
115
Language
Italian, French, Latin
Director
Marco Bellocchio
Cast
Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher, Michele Riondino, Maya Sansa, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Gian Marco Tognazzi, Fabrizio Falco, Brenno Placido
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Caryn James, IndieWire

When Marco Bellocchio's startling first film -- the dark, explosive family drama Fists in the Pocket -- appeared in 1965, he arrived with a fresh, audacious voice and eye. Amazingly, he remains a vibrant filmmaker all these decades later. Now 74, he may be one of the living Italian masters, but he ...

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