Marco Bellocchio's China Is Near (1967) which is currently being revived at Film Forum hearkens back to a time when sex wasn't so much political, as it has become today, as an allegory for politics. The film is reminiscent of Renoir's La regle du jeu (1939) to the extent that the satire resonates the class conflict which is the movie's underlying theme. Vittorio (Glauco Mauri) and his sister Elena (Elda Tattoli) are two aristocrats who get tricked into marrying the help, in the form of their two...
Marco Bellocchio's China Is Near (1967) which is currently being revived at Film Forum hearkens back to a time when sex wasn't so much political, as it has become today, as an allegory for politics. The film is reminiscent of Renoir's La regle du jeu (1939) to the extent that the satire resonates the class conflict which is the movie's underlying theme. Vittorio (Glauco Mauri) and his sister Elena (Elda Tattoli) are two aristocrats who get tricked into marrying the help, in the form of their two...
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