Manager: Gianni Amelio
artists: Luigi Lo Csscio, Elio Germano, Leonardo Maltese
Year: 2022
Premiere: 7/14/23
★★★
Veteran Italian director Gianni Amelio is interested in his latest film. The true story of Aldo Braibanti told in three different times and with different approaches and perspectives. With a career similar to that of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Braibanti was a left-wing intellectual, writer, and playwright who was then accused, convicted, and jailed in the oppressive Italian society of the 1960s. moral subjugation as a way of masking counter-oppression gay. This ambiguous concept emerged under Mussolini because if the word gay was used in the press or at a trial, homosexuality was considered to exist in the country, and this was unacceptable to the most reactionary minds of the time.
Braibanti “morally subjugated” one of his students. They became lovers without imposing anything on each other. A child from a bourgeois family was also punished. Anne was convinced that both homosexuality and communism were diseases that could be fought, for example, with lobotomy. And she accepted the treatment by putting her son in jail. Amelio gracefully tells it all without loading up on ink or hiding some questionable aspects of Braibanti’s personality and acting. His relationship with his mother is one of the most studied throughout the movie.