• Marco Bellocchio hits out at withdrawal of producers
• 'New air of censorship' blamed for lack of cash
One of Italy's most successful and critically acclaimed film directors has hit out at a creeping climate of censorship in the country after he was refused funding for a dark satire about Silvio Berlusconi.
Marco Bellocchio, whose recent film Vincere has received rave reviews in the Us, said that he was abandoning his next project, Italia Mia (My Italy), after 10 potential backers had run scared.
Describing the film as a study of power in today's Italy, Bellocchio told the daily Corriere della Sera his protagonist would be a young girl caught up in "well-known circumstances that have ended up in all the newspapers", climaxing at a "huge party at a luxurious island villa, maybe in Sardinia or Sicily, where shocking things happen".
In a week in which Silvio Berlusconi – famous for throwing wild...
• 'New air of censorship' blamed for lack of cash
One of Italy's most successful and critically acclaimed film directors has hit out at a creeping climate of censorship in the country after he was refused funding for a dark satire about Silvio Berlusconi.
Marco Bellocchio, whose recent film Vincere has received rave reviews in the Us, said that he was abandoning his next project, Italia Mia (My Italy), after 10 potential backers had run scared.
Describing the film as a study of power in today's Italy, Bellocchio told the daily Corriere della Sera his protagonist would be a young girl caught up in "well-known circumstances that have ended up in all the newspapers", climaxing at a "huge party at a luxurious island villa, maybe in Sardinia or Sicily, where shocking things happen".
In a week in which Silvio Berlusconi – famous for throwing wild...
- 1/17/2011
- by Tom Kington
- The Guardian - Film News
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