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  • 2005
  • Wellspring Media
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2005
  • Wellspring Media
  • 1 h 46 m
Good Morning, Night

Summary The 1978 kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro, Italy's former prime minister and head of the Christian Democrat party, was a cataclysmic event no Italian can forget. Marco Bellocchio turns to this troubled period of Italian history in Good Morning, Night, producing a film of immense complexity and devastating emotional power. [Wellspring...

Directed By: Marco Bellocchio

Written By: Anna Laura Braghetti, Paola Tavella, Daniela Ceselli, Marco Bellocchio

  • 2005
  • Wellspring Media
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2005
  • Wellspring Media
  • 1 h 46 m

Good Morning, Night

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary The 1978 kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro, Italy's former prime minister and head of the Christian Democrat party, was a cataclysmic event no Italian can forget. Marco Bellocchio turns to this troubled period of Italian history in Good Morning, Night, producing a film of immense complexity and devastating emotional power. [Wellspring...

Directed By: Marco Bellocchio

Written By: Anna Laura Braghetti, Paola Tavella, Daniela Ceselli, Marco Bellocchio

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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82% Positive
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18% Mixed
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88
Combining a thoughtful script with splendid acting -- especially by Sansa -- Bellocchio has fashioned a tense thriller that is both understated and powerful.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
80
Numerous filmmakers have attempted to dramatize the terrorist activity that gripped Italy in the 1970s, but few have done so with the unsettling power of Marco Bellocchio's Good Morning, Night.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
75
It's a thoughtful and ultimately chilling take on a tragedy that still has the power to disturb and divide.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
At times Good Morning, Night feels as claustrophobic as the apartment itself, and you may feel that the director is handling his volatile material with a bit too much delicacy. But the movie's atmosphere is a curious mixture of obliqueness and intensity.
By Dana Stevens FULL REVIEW
70
Bellocchio's film, which enlivens the grim realities of months in a stuffy apartment with striking bursts of lyricism, is often a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of becoming a slave to ideology.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
63
Though he doesn't possess the dangerous confusion of his tragically misguided heroes, veteran director Marco Bellocchio does share their capacity for raising thought-provoking points that end in an ineffectual tangle.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
It has been called both detached and loaded, unfairly slanted as well as balanced by some of its critics--I can only testify that I found the film both troubling and absorbing over two separate viewings.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Filmalbatros, Rai Cinema, Sky, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC)
Release Date Nov 11, 2005
Duration 1 h 46 m
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Awards

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 1 Win & 8 Nominations
David di Donatello Awards
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 5 Wins & 6 Nominations

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