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This year's NYFF is a decidedly mixed bag of tricks
By Megan Ratner
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In some ways, Good Morning, Night had a similar problem: too much exposition and the whole enterprise outweighed by the events themselves. In his take on the 1978 kidnapping of President Aldo Moro, Marco Bellocchio focuses on Chiara, the only female member of the terrorist cell, played with real verve by Maya Sansa. Some elements work extremely well: Bellocchio conveys the fear and suspicion of the cell members hiding out in an apartment purportedly inhabited by Chiara and her husband, who are as much prisoners as their hostage. But, for those not versed in this seminal episode of modern Italian history, Good Morning, Night is underwritten and lags in the middle. Though Bellocchio uses archival footage to great effect and the costuming and details are just right for 1978, the entire film is upstaged by the final news footage of the once-spry Pope John Paul II performing Moro's state funeral.
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