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Hace 4 días · This film, based on a true story about the kidnapping of a Jewish child in 19th-century Italy, underscores the devastating consequences of family separation.
- 134 min
- Lisa Kennedy
Hace 4 días · Photo: COHEN MEDIA. “Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara ” begins with scenes so bizarre, astonishing and enraging that it’s as if Kafka wandered into 19th-century Italy. The story ...
Hace 3 días · The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification ...
Hace 3 días · Marco Bellocchio. Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is so primally upsetting that you would think it would be unbearable to watch. But it proves intoxicating, at times nearly overwhelming, thanks to perfect casting, an economical and impassioned screenplay, and filmmaking overseen by 84-year old cowriter-director ...
Hace 3 días · By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo’s parents, distraught, will do anything to get their son back.
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- Paolo Pierobon
- Marco Bellocchio
Hace 5 días · By this point, though, the movie has become more of a tour of mid-19th century Italian geopolitics than a portrait of the anguished couple and their kidnapped son. When Pius IX dies in 1878, we’re given an extended sequence of his funeral procession, complete with an allusion to Bertolucci’s “The Conformist,” and yet Momolo’s death isn’t shown at all.
Hace 5 días · Video: Footage showing the kidnapping of IDF female field observers on Oct. 7 by Hamas terrorists. In the footage, the girls appear covered in blood, battered, and terrified as the bodies of their friends lie beside them, surrounded by hordes of terrorists. They can be seen being forcibly handcuffed and pushed against a wall by their captors.
