Greetings gentle readers and welcome to another installment of the Sunday Morning Movie. Today it’s a tale of love and anarchism, Libera, Amore Mio :

And next week’s film, Il Sospetto :

Il sospetto (1975)

Reviews of Libera, Amore Mio :

Letterboxd says:

Claudia Cardinale, our Tunisian anarchist non-hierarchical icon!!

simply one of the best films about anarchism and particularly Italixn anarchism i’ve ever seen. both the essential role Italixn anarchists played in liberating Italy from the fascists and maybe most fascinatingly the problems of state governance when fascism falls. the re-integration of the fascists into Italy’s government which happened in all of Europe, Japan, South America, the US…pretty much everywhere, is broached at the very moment most films would present a resolution.

Bolognini mixes naturalist reportage and assymetrical framings during scenes of extreme state violence and uses a, i don’t know how else to say this, but quintessentially Italixn 70’s camera.…