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Good Morning, Night
(Buongiorno, notte)

Screening on Film
Directed by Marco Bellocchio.
With Maya Sansa, Luigi Lo Cascio, Roberto Herlitzka.
Italy, 2003, 35mm, color, 107 min.
Italian with English subtitles.

By turns sober, elegiac, and despairing, Good Morning, Night is a highly fictionalized retelling of the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro, president of Italy’s Christian Democratic Party, by the Red Brigade in the spring of 1978. Bellocchio creates a female protagonist, a revolutionary named Chiara, who is part of the small group holding Moro prisoner. Seen through her eyes as she comes to question her involvement in the group’s actions, the film’s look back at the dreams of the Italian and European Left in the 20th century becomes a repudiation of revolutionary violence from what Bellocchio has called his “anarchic yet peaceful” perspective.

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