Visions du Réel celebrates Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio is "Guest of Honour" of the 53rd edition of Visions du Réel (7-17 April, 2022), which awards him the Honorary Award.
The Festival “is extremely happy and delighted to pay tribute to an indisputable master of contemporary filmmaking, as well as to a body of work which, from the very first films, has demonstrated dazzling modernity, and is brooding, subversive and audacious, formidably eclectic. Marco Bellocchio exercises impressive liberty to combine registers of images and genres, moving between fiction and documentary, between the intimate and the collective”.
The homage to the “legendary director, screenwriter and producer” includes a retrospective of films and documentaries from his extensive filmography and a masterclass open to the public, in partnership with the Cinémathèque suisse and the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design).
The prize was awarded on April 11, before the screening of Marx can wait (Marx può aspettare), Bellocchio’s latest film as yet unreleased in Switzerland and premiered here.