Marx Can Wait

Marco Bellocchio’s first film Fists in the Pocket – a still eye-poppingly subversive chronicle of family dysfunction - was made when the director was in his mid-twenties and remains one of Italian cinema’s most explosive debuts. In many of Bellocchio’s fiction films of the subsequent five decades, families in all their many forms have remained a consistent theme. With the documentary Marx Can Wait, he turns the focus to his own in a powerful exploration of his twin brother Camillo’s suicide in 1968.