Marx can wait

Through the testimonies of his closest family members, Bellocchio brings his brother Camillo’s story to the screen without filter or modesty. Almost an investigation that reconstructs an era and uncovers the red thread of an important chapter of his cinema.

December 27, 1968.
Camillo Bellocchio, twin brother of director Marco, takes his own life.
at the age of 29. Today the surviving siblings-in addition to Marco are Piergiorgio, Letizia, Alberto, and Maria Luisa-retrace that tragedy together with other members of the great Bellocchio family, remembering
The life and death of the


angel.

The outcome is
a
c
onfession collective steeped in regret,
Yet expressed with fierce lucidity. Bellocchio rediscovers the image of
a lost brother who suffered from feeling invisible in a world crowded
by seemingly unparalleled personalities.