SummaryIn 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 wife, the s... Read More
Directed By:Marco Bellocchio
Written By:Marco Bellocchio, Daniela Ceselli
Vincere
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Universal Acclaim
85
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Generally Favorable
7.3
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
92% Positive
22 Reviews
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8% Mixed
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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.
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.
90
A sustained, alternatingly exhausting and aesthetically exhilarating howl of a film.
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.
80
Bellocchio gets the opera-buffa and the carnival side of Italian Fascism, and parts of the movie are excruciatingly funny.
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.
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.
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Sep 22, 2010
9
Con un vigor narrativo y una inventiva visual envidables, Bellocchio echa mano de un estilo dirÃase operático/futurista para contar la trágica historia de la primera familia del joven socialista Benito Mussolini, repudiada y aplastada cuando "Il Duce" cambió de bando para convertirse en lider del fascismo. Giovanna Mezzogiorno está extraordinaria.
Dec 31, 2022
6
Although I didn't like the first half of the movie, the director made the second half of the movie very interesting for me.
The film looks like a biographical drama, but it should actually be read as a postmodern drama. The sequences that combine reality with imagination in films from the history of cinema are like a collage.Although the film is based on a historical fact, it creates a new reality and confronts us with a deep question. Therefore, I consider the film to be a constructivist film that incorporates a modern idea. Is. The film penetrates deeply into the woman's character and thereby flaunts the unique power of femininity.
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
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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




























