Photograph
courtesy La Biennale
Venice: Film
Festival – Bella Addormentata – Marco Bellocchio. The film takes place over six
days, which are Eluana Englaro’s last and whose story remains in the
background. The stories of fictional characters from different faiths and
ideologies are connected emotively to that case, in an existential reflection
on the reasons for living life and for hope despite everything. A senator,
played by Toni Servillo has to choose whether to vote for a law that goes against his
conscience or not, going against the party line, whilst his daughter Maria, an
activist in a pro-life movement, demonstrates outside the clinic where Eluana
is being treated. Roberto, alongside his brother, is on the opposing secular
front; an “enemy” who Maria falls in love with. Elsewhere, a great actress, Isabelle
Huppert looks to her faith and a miracle to save her daughter, who has been in
an irreversible coma for years, and for whom she has sacrificed her
relationship with her son. Finally, there is the desperate Rossa, Maya Sansa
who wants to die, but a young doctor called Pallido opposes her suicide with
all his might. And against all expectations, at the end of the film, there is a
reawakening...
Above.
Director Marco Bellocchio.
Bella Addormentata – Marco Bellocchio – Maya Sansa
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