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  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 8 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 8 m

Summary In Vincere, the closely guarded story of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's secret lover and son is revealed in fittingly operatic proportions. Thunderstruck by the young Mussolini's charisma, Ida Dalser gives up everything to help champion his revolutionary ideas. When he disappears during World War I and later resurfaces with a new wi...

Directed By: Marco Bellocchio

Written By: Daniela Ceselli, Marco Bellocchio

  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 8 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 8 m

Vincere

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
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Summary In Vincere, the closely guarded story of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's secret lover and son is revealed in fittingly operatic proportions. Thunderstruck by the young Mussolini's charisma, Ida Dalser gives up everything to help champion his revolutionary ideas. When he disappears during World War I and later resurfaces with a new wi...

Directed By: Marco Bellocchio

Written By: Daniela Ceselli, Marco Bellocchio

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 24 Critic Reviews
85
92% Positive
22 Reviews
8% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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92% Positive
22 Reviews
8% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
Setting aside, just for a moment, his general loathsomeness, there is a case to be made for a less apparent aspect of Benito Mussolini: He was once really hot.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
95
Vincere, which comes as close to grand opera as can be achieved without anyone actually bursting into song, feels like a big movie -- handsomely mounted, full of dark shadows counterpointed with stray shafts of light, with dramatic close-ups of faces driven by passion and madness and heavy silences brutally interrupted by clashing tympani.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
90
A sustained, alternatingly exhausting and aesthetically exhilarating howl of a film.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
88
The film is beautifully well-mounted. The locations, the sets, the costumes, everything conspire to re-create the Rome of that time. It provides a counterpoint to the usual caricature of Mussolini. They say that behind every great man there stands a great woman. In Mussolini's case, his treatment of her was a rehearsal for how he would treat Italy.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
80
Bellocchio gets the opera-buffa and the carnival side of Italian Fascism, and parts of the movie are excruciatingly funny.
By David Denby FULL REVIEW
75
Daniele Cipri's highly stylized lensing and Carlo Crivelli's bold score add to the movie's flamboyant aura. But then, the story of a bombastic dictator deserves a bombastic telling.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
60
Forty-four years after his exciting debut feature "Fists in the Pocket," Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio continues his late-career renaissance with the passionate, beautifully crafted, period melodrama Vincere.
By Steve Ramos FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
7.1
73% Positive
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20% Mixed
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7% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
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7% Negative
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Production Company Offside, Rai Cinema, Celluloid Dreams, Istituto Luce, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC), Eurimages, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Film Commission Torino-Piemonte
Release Date Mar 19, 2010
Duration 2 h 8 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.ainoshouri.com/
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Awards

David di Donatello Awards
• 8 Wins & 15 Nominations
Golden Ciak Awards
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 4 Wins & 6 Nominations

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