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To understand how theatre plays a central role in Marco Bellocchio's filmography, it is enough to use even a single film as a case study, which clearly in the context of cross-references, filmic and scenic, never remains isolated. And this film, by which to recompose the puzzle, could for example be the last in order of time? Il traditore, which evokes scene after scene the whole “bellocchiano” universe in which the theatre acts from the inside, like an instrument with which the reality effect is deconstructed, dismantled, invalidated and bent to the need for a subtle, provocative, liberating interpretation. But in order to do this, it is necessary first of all to take a step backward, or forwards, according to your point of view, taking in the folds of what is preparing to become the final act of Italian history, as in a perfect mechanism for "reciting history ”. The key to the skein that Il traditore takes on.

Studio sulle coincidenze significative nel cinema di Marco Bellocchio in ambito politico-indiziario, tra le pieghe del teatro e delle letteratura.