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Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara Reviews
Without a doubt, this incredible true event that shows the antiquity of anti-Semitism and the brutal conversion attempts that the Jews suffered, deserved to be brought to the big screen.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 22, 2024
Even the victims of religious prejudice are apparently not immune to its viral effects. Perhaps there is a lesson for the Church today in the film’s message, ham-fisted though it may be.
| Original Score: C | Aug 10, 2024
In its portrayal of the inflexibility of those who purport to serve divine will, this film is both extremely effective and chilling.
| Original Score: B | Jul 24, 2024
Rapito is not only a portrayal of the persistence of antisemitic myths, but also a reflection on how these ideas continue to resurface during politically convenient times, making it highly relevant to the present moment. [Full review in Spanish]
| Jul 14, 2024
Marco Bellocchio tells the horrifying true story of a 19th century Jewish Italian boy, who is taken away from his family after a maid claims that she baptised him.
| Original Score: A- | Jul 5, 2024
With the story of a Jewish boy kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858, director Marco Bellocchio delivers a passionate and outrageous diatribe against the church. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 1, 2024
“Kidnapped” illustrates, with the emotional force of grand opera, the cruelty inflicted by people claiming in God’s name that they know what’s best.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 28, 2024
Bellocchio should be credited for shining a light on a forgotten pivotal event, but the real Mortaras deserve that light to be a little less dull.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 20, 2024
Even in its insistent political gaze, Kidnapped does not lose focus on the Mortara family, the tragedy of their loss, or the resistance of their religious identity. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 20, 2024
Auteur cinema, but predictable. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2024
Impeccable in its period reconstruction, in the documentation and variety of details it provides, Kidnapped swings between the intimate and the religious, the political and judicial... [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 18, 2024
My favorite film this week.
| Jun 15, 2024
Melodramatic and coercive, with a telegraphing score, crammed with weeping violins and scenes of crying and wailing. It’s a solid, emotionally powerful story on its own without these distracting and decorations.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2024
A testament to the insidiousness of systemic abuse, Kidnapped illuminates the tragedy of unchecked power exploited by men.
| Jun 12, 2024
Director Marco Bellocchio’s beautifully shot film offers a problematic telling of a fascinating historical episode that though bumpy is highly watchable.
| Original Score: B- | Jun 12, 2024
A top-notch film that no film buff, who so admired being one, should miss. [Full review in Spanish]
| Jun 12, 2024
It's a grotesque story in which the shock of institutionalized bigotry is cushioned by the smug complacency...
| Jun 7, 2024
Edgardo, played as a youngster by Enea Sala and as a young man by Leonardo Maltese, is a figure locked so tightly in a nightmare that he eventually succumbs to it. His story, in the hands of a master, is both compelling and chilling.
| Jun 4, 2024
does a superb job depicting Jewish spiritual practices whereas the Catholic rituals feel more alien and stranger, especially given the prevalence of contemporary horror movies set in the Catholic spaces like “Immaculate” (2024) and “The First Omen” (2024)
| Jun 2, 2024