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TIFF: ‘Nuns vs. The Vatican’ Dismantles The Holy Patriarchy
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TIFF: ‘Nuns vs. The Vatican’ Dismantles The Holy Patriarchy

Cinema, television and media have been exposing more and more the shady business inside the Catholic Church, whether it was through the Paramount+ series Murder of God’s Banker, Netflix’s miniseries Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi or the Academy Award-winning film Spotlight. Through the years several dark sides of the Vatican have been exposed….

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
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Cannes Film Festival: Rapito (Kidnapped), Bellocchio’s Historical Drama Exposes The Violence Of Dogmatism
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Cannes Film Festival: Rapito (Kidnapped), Bellocchio’s Historical Drama Exposes The Violence Of Dogmatism

Marco Bellocchio, the secular director from Piacenza, has often explored the consequences of religious imposition — never being sententious yet remaining truthful to his laical perspective. In his 2002 film, My Mother’s Smile (L’ora di religione), he touched upon the sensitive issue of being baptised in treason. In that case it occurred to the son of the…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
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