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

Marco BELLOCCHIO
  • 2002
  • In Competition
  • Feature Films

Ernesto is a successful painter. He is separated from his wife, Irene, with whom he has a beloved young son, Leonardo. One day he is informed by the enigmatic Don Pugni (secretary to Cardinal Piumini) that his mother is in the process of being made a saint. Ernesto is stunned by this news both because his family has not mentioned anything to him about it and because it contradicts everything he believes in as an artist, an atheist and a free man. A few hours later he becomes the object of the pressures from his family who want him to participate actively in the beatification process. The conflicts explode. The memory of his mother (and her beguiling smile) opens a whirl of unexpected events through which Ernesto must revise his view of the past and face the present in new way.

Directed by : Marco BELLOCCHIO
Year of production: 2001
Country: Italy
Duration: 102

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24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE

Michael WINTERBOTTOM

ABOUT SCHMIDT

Alexander PAYNE

CHIHWASEON

Kwon-Taek IM

DEMONLOVER

Olivier ASSAYAS

KEDMA

Amos GITAI

L’ADVERSAIRE

Nicole GARCIA

LE FILS

Jean-Pierre DARDENNE, Bruce BROWN

MIES VAILLA MENNEISYYTTÄ

(THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST) Aki KAURISMAKI

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE

Paul Thomas ANDERSON

REN XIAO YAO

(UNKNOWN PLEASURES) JIA Zhang-Ke

RUSSIAN ARK

Alexander SOKOUROV

SPIDER

David CRONENBERG

TEN

Abbas KIAROSTAMI

THE PIANIST

Roman POLANSKI

YADON ILAHEYYA

Elia SULEIMAN