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Good Morning, Night A multi award-winning, unsettling drama based ont he true story of the kidnapping of Italy's former Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978, a crime which stunned the nation, and a story which chillingly resounds in a time when terrorist cells and funamentalism are proliferating around the world. Told from the perspective of Chiara (Maya Sansa), one of four members of the Red Brigade, a radical terrorist organisation, that orchestrated the crime under a screen of quiet bourgeois domesticity. Good Morning, Night is a hugely engrossing and intelligent exploration of the nature of imprisonment and the failure of radical ideology, from Marco Bellocchio (My Mother's Smile, Fists In The Pickpoket), one of Italy's most acclaimed directors. The Miracle Tonio is an introspective twelve-year-old pained by the friction between his parents. While riding his bicycle one day, he's hit by a car driven by Cinzia, a troubled young woman whom Tonio sees briefly through a veil of blinding light as he loses consciousness. Emerging from his coma some days later, Tonio happens upon a dying man in the same hospital. As Tonio touches him, the man is mysteriously revived, prompting talk of miraculous healing powers. Rather than an exploration of faith, The Miracle is instead an examination of how incidents of this kind play into people's need to believe or to exploit. This sympathetic and affecting tale from director Edorardo Winspeare (Pizzicata, Life Blood) is stunningly shot amongst the brilliant industrial backdrops of coastal Taranto.
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