Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Bella Addormentata’ (Dormant Beauty) is overflowing with beautiful women in one state of unconsciousness or another and people who are trying to wake them up. Bellocchio’s famous use of powerful imagery is at times overdone in this movie but the theme is intense: the right to die vs the right to make somebody live, even when they don’t want to.
Nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Festival, I got this shot of Bellocchio and the film’s stars,Toni Servillo, Alba Rohrwacher, and Isabelle Huppert.
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