As a black comedy about a two-faced politician, China Is Near, co-writer/director Marco Bellocchio's scathing 1967 bedroom farce, effectively predicted the real-life disintegration of Italy's unsustainably hypertrophic Socialist party during the 1968 general elections. But today the film feels only superficially about Italy in the Sixties. China Is Near's hysterically cynical plot could easily take place anywhere there's a surplus of social-climbers. The story is a series of nakedly self-serving betrayals: Lovers Giovanna (Daniela Surina) and Carlo (Paolo Graziosi) sleep with, respectively, wannabe councilman Vittorio (Glauco Mauri) and his wife, Elena (Elda Tattoli), in order to secure money and power for themselves. Camillo (Pierluigi Aprà), a co...
- 3/18/2015
- Village Voice
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