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Marco Bellocchio’s Cannes Movie ‘Kidnapped’, About The Catholic Church’s Abduction Of Jewish Boy Edgardo Mortara, Sets U.S. Release Date

Marco Bellocchio’s Cannes Movie ‘Kidnapped’, About The Catholic Church’s Abduction Of Jewish Boy Edgardo Mortara, Sets U.S. Release Date

Cohen Media Group‘s well-received Cannes, TIFF and NYFF 2023 drama Kidnapped: The Abduction Of Edgardo Mortara is set to be released stateside on May 24.

The latest from respected Italian filmmaker Belloccio debuted in Competition at Cannes. It reconstructs the true story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy who was kidnapped by the Papal state and forcibly raised as a Christian in 19th-Century Italy.

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‘La Chimera’ Director Alice Rohrwacher and Isabella Rossellini on Excavating Italian Cinema (Exclusive)

‘La Chimera’ Director Alice Rohrwacher and Isabella Rossellini on Excavating Italian Cinema (Exclusive)

The Italian writer and director Alice Rohrwacher’s fourth feature, La Chimera, is the story of an archeologist — known only as the Englishman in less reputable circles — with a penchant for plundering tombs and selling their buried treasures on the black market. In her filmmaking, Rohrwacher fancies herself something of an archeologist, too, albeit with less disturbing of the dead.

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La Chimera Is the Perfect Kind of Film to Get Lost In

La Chimera Is the Perfect Kind of Film to Get Lost In

It’s rare these days to find yourself happily lost in a movie’s dream. We have plenty of allegedly fantastical pictures begging for our attentiveness: projects based on already existing gazillion-dollar intellectual properties, puzzle movies with complicated, outlandish plots, classy horror films that strive to remind us, as if we needed reminding, that they’re part of a genre that deserves to be taken seriously. But Alice Rohrwacher’s enigmatic and bracing La Chimera, its touch as glancing as a zephyr, asks more of us while demanding less. It’s the kind of movie you wake up from, as opposed to one you merely watch.

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Review: A sun-dappled Italian fable, ‘La Chimera’ feels like the discovery of a new language

Review: A sun-dappled Italian fable, ‘La Chimera’ feels like the discovery of a new language

Time increases the monetary value of certain objects we leave behind. What was once brand new the years turn into antiques — like the Etruscan artifacts exhumed after being hidden for millennia in Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” a film of incandescent beauty, both aesthetically and in its thematic liminality. As with Rohrwacher’s previous movies, there is an exquisite blurring between the tangible and the ethereal, the urban and the pastoral, life and death, past and present — all of it overlapping with the same ease as the hues of a twilight sky.

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