Word: bellochio
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...Marco Bellochio develops this theme using what may be the most complicated plot since La Ronde. Sexual liaisons develop as rapidly as the political alliances they are set against--Bellochio depicting both as equally passionate and equally insincere...
Labels are all-important. They dominate the political scene like political posters dominate many of Bellochio's shots. Who can resist ideological semantics which produce groups like the New Socialist Left Center Coalition Party...
Sharp editing and a mobile, zooming camera carry the fast pace of changing personal and political relationships. This pace is perhaps a bit hectic, especially at the beginning: Bellochio cuts from one liaison to another without letting us figure out ideological or amatory identities. But these are minor confusions that only tumble forward to hit us occasionally, when the rest of the film slows down...
China is Near is a rare film in which art and message peacefully coexist. The hypocrisy of dishonest personal relations; ideology disappearing through compromise; these are tragic themes. But Bellochio handles them lightly, with humor, and the tragedy appears only in the interstices of laughter, gaining in nobility and significance...