Dormant Beauty

Thu. Apr 17, 2014 at 7:00pm EDT
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Dormant Beauty

2012. Italy/France. Directed by Marco Bellocchio. Screenplay by Veronica Raimo, Stefano Rulli, Marco Bellocchio. With Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher, and Maya Sansa. The multilayered narrative of Bellocchio’s latest film is constructed around Italy’s equivalent of the Terri Schiavo case, a legal struggle around the fate of a woman, Eluana Englaro, suspended in a vegetative coma for 17 years. Each story plays out on a different stylistic level: domestic drama (a liberal senator risks losing the love of his deeply religious daughter), social realism (a young doctor struggles to save a drug addict from herself), and operatic delirium (a famous actress creates a theatrical spectacle around her own daughter, a young woman kept alive by a respirator). In Italian; English subtitles. 115 min.

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The Museum of Modern Art Theater 1 11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019