2021 · documentary · family · memoir
Marx Can Wait
Directed by Marco Bellocchio1h 36m2021
"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory.
Our read: Marx Can Wait (2021) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded documentary · family · memoir entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured documentary / family, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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