A personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director's twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.... (Full plot summary below)
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A personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director's twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.
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| TheWrapDan CallahanMarx Can Wait is a crucial and profound addition to the filmography of one of the greatest living filmmakers, and it ends with a loving reconciliation with the past that is so moving and so convincing because it is so hard-won; this is a movie that has a rare kind of final cathartic authority. |
| VarietyJay WeissbergStraightforward in concept yet psychologically profound, the film draws the audience in with a lingering sadness made more potent by the director’s clear yet unspoken sense of guilt. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottIt’s a complicated and painful story, humanely and sensitively told. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleEven at its most emotionally awkward or loose, it signals a filmmaking sensibility where Bellocchio — whose nearly 60-year career has been built on a provocative rendering of the social and political fractures around him — is refreshingly averse to viewing his own past through rose-colored glasses. |
| Slant MagazineJake ColeMarco Bellocchio uses his film, a delicate mix of biography and autobiography, as the catalyst for long-delayed therapy. |
| Screen DailyWendy IdeBellocchio’s motives for making the film are in part to make sense of the events, in part, one suspects, to exorcise a lingering sense of survivor’s guilt. Yet for all the laudable intentions, Camillo still gets slightly lost in the rambling anecdotes, padding and extraneous details. |
