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With Good Morning, Night, writer-director Marco Bellocchio takes a pensive -- and ultimately chilling -- look at a dark chapter in Italian history.
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The strength of Good Morning, Night is not in winking meta-drama but in a clear-eyed, restorative realism that's occasionally broken by quiet flights of fancy. Jan 6, 2006 | Full Review…
The strength of Good Morning, Night is not in winking meta-drama but in a clear-eyed, restorative realism that's occasionally broken by quiet flights of fancy.
Ty Burr
The race between her deep-set ideology and burgeoning conscience is a compelling one, but there are too many shortcuts -- from fevered dreams to convenient coincidences -- along the way. Nov 11, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4
The race between her deep-set ideology and burgeoning conscience is a compelling one, but there are too many shortcuts -- from fevered dreams to convenient coincidences -- along the way.
Elizabeth Weitzman
Sober yet filled with fancy. There's a wistful aspect to the movie. Nov 8, 2005
Sober yet filled with fancy. There's a wistful aspect to the movie.
J. Hoberman
Part reality, part fantasy and all compassion. It is a strangely moving experience for the historically aware filmgoer. Nov 2, 2005 | Full Review…
Part reality, part fantasy and all compassion. It is a strangely moving experience for the historically aware filmgoer.
Andrew Sarris
Bellocchio, a former Communist party activist, keenly appreciates the way in which the just causes of the past have been replaced by an uncertainty of action and purpose. Nov 16, 2004 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Bellocchio, a former Communist party activist, keenly appreciates the way in which the just causes of the past have been replaced by an uncertainty of action and purpose.
Jamie Russell
Ms. Sansa is an actress of exquisite sensitivity. Oct 9, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/5
Ms. Sansa is an actress of exquisite sensitivity.
A.O. Scott
Despite good intentions, Good Morning, Night simply confirms what most viewers want to believe about themselves. Nov 14, 2005 | Full Review…
Despite good intentions, Good Morning, Night simply confirms what most viewers want to believe about themselves.
Daniel Eagan
A thoughtful and ultimately chilling take on a tragedy that still has the power to disturb and divide. Nov 11, 2005 | Rating: 3/4
A thoughtful and ultimately chilling take on a tragedy that still has the power to disturb and divide.
Ken Fox
A stunning achievement. Nov 11, 2005 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
A stunning achievement.
Shlomo Schwartzberg
Director Marco Bellocchio takes a pragmatic and complex position Nov 11, 2005 | Rating: '3/5' | Full Review…
Director Marco Bellocchio takes a pragmatic and complex position
Kent Turner
condenses a national tragedy into an intense domestic drama, and uses the image of a household in disarray to suggest the widening cracks of a country at odds with itself. May 6, 2005 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
condenses a national tragedy into an intense domestic drama, and uses the image of a household in disarray to suggest the widening cracks of a country at odds with itself.
Anton Bitel
Buongiorno, notte fails even as a lyrical meditation on the kidnapping because the characters do not engage the audience at any point. Feb 16, 2005 | Full Review…
Buongiorno, notte fails even as a lyrical meditation on the kidnapping because the characters do not engage the audience at any point.
Boyd van Hoeij
[font=Century Gothic]"Good Morning, Night" starts out with an apartment being rented to a young couple in Italy. It is 1978 and Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro(Roberto Herlitzka) has been kidnapped by the Communist Red Brigades. This apartment will be where he is held captive for two months. Moro maintains a quiet dignity while he is being put on trial for his supposed crimes. [/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]In "Good Morning, NIght", Marco Bellocchio does not use a purely realistic style to tell this very effective political thriller. The movie is told through the eyes of the sole woman of the cell, Chiara(Maya Sansa).(Apparently she is also the only one of the captors who has an outside life during the ordeal.) Through dream imagery, we get a very good idea of what Chiara's ideal world would be like - something akin to a workers paradise. The Brigades hoped Moro's kidnapping would lead to a general uprising... [/font]
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