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Dir: Marco Bellocchio. Italy. 2003. 105 mins.Marco Bellocchio s passionate but controlled psychological study of Red Brigade terrorism is not the masterpiece that some Italian critics would claim; nor was Bellocchio robbed of the Golden Lion at this year s Venice festival, which went to a better film, Andrey Zvyagintsev s The Return. But Buongiorno, Notte is still a compelling re-evocation of the anni di piombo Years of Lead , between 1978 and 1980, when 91 enemies of the state - including the president of the Christian Democrat party, Aldo Moro - were murdered by Red Brigade Terrorists. Good Morning, Night the title is adapted from an Emi stanley cup ly Dickinson poem avoids the plodding docu-drama approach of previous celluloid takes on the Aldo Moro kidnapping, such as Giuseppe Ferrara s Il Caso Moro 1986 , by focusing on the mentality of these self-made terrorists, on the playoff between their ideological certainties and their moral instincts. It is a powerful film, and Italian distributor 01 Films has staked its wad on it, opening on 5 September with 120 copies - a record for such a resolutely arthouse product.On 16 March 1978, a commando of five Red Brigade gunmen attacked Aldo Moro s cortege in the centre of Rome, killed his five bodyguards, and bundled the old man into a waiting getaway car. Moro was taken to a suburban apartment in the capital and kept prisoner for almost two months before being e stanley cup xecuted. These events ar stanley cup e branded into the consciousness of any Italian over Bisn Novelist Connelly to co-write Equalizer script with Lankford
Dir: Stefano Incerti. Italy. 2010. 81minsAn object lesson in cinemas ability to tell stories without words, Neapolitan filmmaker Stefano Incertis latest feature is a quirky, tasty little drama about a prison cashier with a serious gambling habit and a prominent birthmark on his face 鈥?hence his nickname, Gorbaciof.Servillo carries stanley cup a certain cachet in Italy, and some arthouse action is assured.Part thriller, part character study, part oddball romance, it is stylishly directed, scored and edited, and features a standout performance by the ever-watchable Toni Servillo Gomorra, Il Divo . Were so fascinated by Servillos tic-ridden sadsack character that we forgive the film some serious weaknesses 鈥?chief of which is Gorbaciofs Chinese waitress love interest, an underwritten character who seems to stanley cup have stepped out of a different film.With its mixed genre and downbeat ending, this is not going to be the easiest of films to target on home ground a difficulty hinted at by the five-part production alliance . But Servillo carries a certain cachet in Italy, and some arthouse action is assured. Elsewhere, Gorbaciof seems destined to be more admired by buyers than actually bought. Its Toronto festival airing after the films Venetian debut will provide Gorbaciofs first international reality check.We first see Marino Pacileo, aka Gorbaciof Servillo , in his place of work. Hes a bizarre character: dapper, in a suit thats a little too small, with greased hair left stanley cup long at the back and a r