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Releasing on May 24, 2024
  • 2024
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 2 h 14 m
  • 2024
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 2 h 14 m

Summary In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo’s pare...

Directed By: Marco Bellocchio

Written By: Susanna Nicchiarelli, Edoardo Albinati, Daniela Ceselli, Daniele Scalise, Marco Bellocchio

  • 2024
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 2 h 14 m
  • 2024
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 2 h 14 m

Kidnapped

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
71
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Summary In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo’s pare...

Directed By: Marco Bellocchio

Written By: Susanna Nicchiarelli, Edoardo Albinati, Daniela Ceselli, Daniele Scalise, Marco Bellocchio

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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100
Apr 24, 2024
Kidnapped is an expertly paced, gorgeously shot and evocative true story of faith, family, and the power of people coming together to right deeply ingrained wrongs.
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90
Jul 10, 2023
Kidnapped (Rapito) is one of Marco Bellocchio’s most successful films, both as a taut thriller that will capture audiences with his terribly human drama, and as a masterful reflection on the themes that the Italian director has worried and revisited over a lifetime of filmmaking: the Catholic church as an anti-liberal indoctrinating machine that steals children’s souls, the frailty of personal identity, and the struggle for liberation on an individual and societal level.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
80
May 25, 2023
Kidnapped hides a bleak and bracing message inside lovely old costumes and sumptuous set pieces .
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
60
May 25, 2023
Solid, stately and — like the collapsing Papal States of the Italian Peninsula in the late 1800s — just a little too tradition-bound for its own good.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
60
May 25, 2023
If Kidnapped aims to dive into the subconscious of its characters, it gets stuck on the surface.
By Phil de Semlyen FULL REVIEW
50
May 25, 2023
Filled with the director’s typical operatic flourishes — cameras floating down corridors or over balconies as characters race toward disaster, emotional crescendos set to a racing score by Fabio Massimo Capogrosso — it can also be a rather stuffy affair, with lots of dramatic speeches and religious symbolism that runs the gamut from satirical to heavy-handed.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
50
May 25, 2023
Despite the cool, screeching, horror-like score and some memorable moments, Kidnapped plays more like a heavy sigh than an absorbing adaptation of history.
By Luke Hicks FULL REVIEW

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Production Company IBC Movie, Kavac Film, Rai Cinema, Ad Vitam Production, The Match Factory, ARTE, Canal+, Cine+, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Ministero della Cultura (MiC), La Région Île-de-France, Emilia-Romagna Film Commission, Regione Lazio, Arte France Cinéma, Cinecittà
Release Date May 24, 2024
Duration 2 h 14 m
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Awards

David di Donatello Awards
• 11 Nominations
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 7 Wins & 10 Nominations
Golden Rooster Awards
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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