Good Morning, Night
2003
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailaints - a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade. Read more
| Starring | Luigi Lo Cascio, Maya Sansa, Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio |
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| Director | Marco Bellocchio |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Good Morning, Night
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailaints - a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
| Starring | Luigi Lo Cascio, Maya Sansa, Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Giovanni Calcagno, Paolo Briguglia |
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| Director | Marco Bellocchio |
| Studio | ARTIFICIAL EYE |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 42 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Italian |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Apr 2005 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (6)
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Having challenged the authority of the Roman Catholic Church in My Mother's Smile, veteran director Marco Bellocchio here turns his attention to Italy's turbulent political past. Set in 1978, this is an intense drama reconstructing the kidnap and murder of former prime minister Aldo Moro by the Red Brigade. Chiara (Maya Sansa) is part of the terrorist cell, and holds down a job at a library to allay the suspicions of her Roman neighbours. But she begins to question the motives and methods of her hot-headed leader, Mariano (Luigi Lo Cascio), and, as the crisis develops, begins to feel more like a victim herself. Roberto Herlitzka plays Moro with a patient dignity, adding weight to what is an ideologically provocative, but also deeply moving human drama.
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In 1978 Italy, Red Brigades terrorists abducted and eventually murdered the statesman Aldo Moro, a past prime... read more on Time Out
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Don't Resucitate
This film is watchable despite containing many of the usual European traits:
1)It's serious so it must be slow.
2)Don't change the pace and
3)don't explain anyone or anything.
For goodness sake this is exciting stuff!
They've kidnapped the Prime Minister and yet no one shows much sign of a racing pulse or even of having one!
And as for the Red Brigades who exactly were they, what did they stand for and why did they do the things they did?
At the end of this film,
No! at the end of this intellectual flim-flam I knew as much about them as I did when the movie began.
Nada.
PS Thought the canaries had the right idea. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Slight, frustrating, and yet...
This film has its moments without being a bona fide must-see. Its problems include a certain amount of implausibility in the rag-bag bunch of amateurs who are supposed to be responsible for the kidnapping (or at least the incarceration) of Aldo Moro. They just seem far too homely, far too amateurish, far too soft around the edges to be credible as revolutionary Marxist terrorists. Maybe that's just my naivety.. after all, most terrorists do lead pretty banal lives most of the time. But there was no hint in the film or in the characters of the cold, dehumanized ruthlessness it takes to carry out such an act.
At no point was I chilled to the bone by the gang. (Although there was quite an ominous feel to the, presumably, real-life TV news footage which peppered the narrative.)
And I'm not sure Chiara's dream sequences were dreamy enough or profound enough to warrant inclusion. I would have preferred a more tortured descent into self-questioning halluciantion or a more realist treatment of the story. By neither going wholeheartedly for gritty realism nor exploring Chiara's psyche through truly powerful symbolism, what the director leaves us with is a tepid, uneasy, odd-tasting mixture of the two.
Which is a pity because Maya Sansa is a very engaging screen presence and Roberto Herlitzka as the doomed former PM is actually quite mesmerizing in a pretty underwritten role.
And whilst the political discourse in most of the film is pretty laboured and uninspiring, there is a tremendously rousing anti-fascsist singalong at the film's centre which unites generations (and even strangers) in Chiara's extended family. -
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