Kidnapped
Film details
| Film Title | Kidnapped |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 134mins |
| Year | 2023 |
| Country | France, Germany, Italy |
| Director | Marco Bellocchio |
| Actors | Enea Sala, Leonardo Maltese, Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Andrea Gherpelli, Samuele Teneggi, Corrado Invernizzi, Filippo Timi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Paolo Calabresi, Aurora Camatti, Bruno Cariello, Walter Lippa, Alessandro Bandini |
| Language | Hebrew, Italian, Latin |
| AKA | Rapito |
| Showings |
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
With stately restraint, Bellocchio manages to put the audience in an ever-tightening chokehold of tension and outrage.
★★★★
The performances, meanwhile, are exemplary, the screenplay powerful, and each scene is lit like high-era Caravaggio.
★★★★
TimesIt is a full-tilt melodrama with the passionate vehemence of Victor Hugo or Charles Dickens, which lays bare an ugly formative episode of Europe’s Catholic church: an affair of antisemitism and child abuse.
★★★★★
