Vincere

"He creates an intimate mood while alluding to the general feel of the highly chronicled era without going too far over the top or reconstructing elaborate sets."

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"A thrilling, at times brilliant piece of staging that never forgets the emotional pull of either the tragic personal tale or the ramifications of history….it’s the film’s style that takes the breath away. Bellocchio sets up his scenes like acts from an opera, alternately theatrical, spectacular, intimate and resounding."

VARIETY

"As a stirring portrait of a woman wronged, it delivers the emotional goods…it’s Mezzogiorno’s sympathetic and unrestrained performance as a woman who was one of history’s victims that gives an auteur’s firework display its emotional heft."

SCREEN DAILY

"(Bellocchio) has certainly punched out a dynamic film, a wild operatic drama with an exhilarating orchestral score; the tide of melodramatic hysteria runs parallel to that whipped up by Italian fascism and war-fever at the beginning of the last century."

THE GUARDIAN

"So dizzying and unrelenting that it more or less recapitulates the birth of Fascism in cinematic form."

THE AV CLUB

"Cinematic innovation. A beautiful film."

MOVING PICTURES MAGAZINE

"Vincere’ manages to succeed both as historical melodrama and as a salutary reminder that history tends to repeat itself….Bellocchio’s virtuosity in combining drama, archive footage, and music…a highly cinematic oratorio of enormous rhetorical force."

TIME OUT