Marco BELLOCCHIO

Director, Writer, Actor

Italy

Marco BELLOCCHIO © Cineteca di Bologna

Marco Bellocchio, after studying at the Dramatic Art Academy of Milan and the Experimental Cinema Centre, directs in 1965 his first feature film, remarked by the critics. Breaking with neo-realism, his politically-engaged works attack the Italian symbols of conformism; after his cult movie, Fists in the Pockets - manifesto of a youth in revolt - he denounces religion with In the Name of the Father (1971), and the army with Victory March (1976). Along with Michel Piccoli and Anouk Aimée, he wins at Cannes two Best Actor awards for A Leap in the Dark (1980). He then passes from films deemed "subversive", in the image of Devil in the Flesh which sparks a scandal in Cannes in 1986, to literary adaptations such as the Pirandello adaptation The Nanny (1990). Marco Bellocchio troubles anew the Vatican with My Mother's Smile, selected by Cannes in 2002. And he was the first to speak out about the assassination of Aldo Moro with Good Morning, Night, screened at the Mostra in 2004 and unanimously hailed by critics worldwide.

Jury attendance

  • Member Feature films, 2007

Feature films

SBATTI IL MOSTRO IN PRIMA PAGINA

Cannes Classics, 2024Director

RAPITO

In Competition - Feature Films, 2023Director, Screenplay

ESTERNO NOTTE

Cannes Premiere, 2022Director

MARX PUÓ ASPETTARE

Cannes Premiere, 2021Director, Screenplay

IL TRADITORE

In Competition - Feature Films, 2019Director, Director

VINCERE

In Competition - Feature Films, 2009Director, Screenplay

IL REGISTA DI MATRIMONI

Un Certain Regard, 2006Screenplay, Director

L’ORA DI RELIGIONE (IL SORRISO DI MIA MADRE)

In Competition - Feature Films, 2002Director, Screenplay

LA BALIA

In Competition - Feature Films, 1999Screenplay, Director

IL PRINCIPE DI HOMBURG DI HEINRICH VON KLEIST

In Competition - Feature Films, 1997Screenplay, Director

IL SOGNO DELLA FARFALLA

Un Certain Regard, 1994Director, Screenplay

ENRICO IV

In Competition - Feature Films, 1984Director, Screenplay

SALTO NEL VUOTO

In Competition - Feature Films, 1980Director, Screenplay

IL GABBIANO

Les yeux fertiles, 1977Screenplay, Director

Awards

Marco BELLOCCHIO

2021 Honorary Palme d'Or