Marco Bellocchio deserves applause for his film "Kidnapped" even if Cannes did not understand it

Marco Bellocchio, the eighty-year-old director from Piacenza who is experiencing a second youth, has made a film extraordinary as it certainly is”Kidnapped” which has been in cinemas for a few days. The obscurantism of Catholic church di Pius IX, that of the Syllabus but also the famous "Non expedit", comes out in pieces and, if it is true that a Church is always based on its dogmas, when a Pope gets to kidnap a child (the famous Mortara case) and to throw his Jewish family into despair, there is reason to reflect and to be indignant. Times more than a century away it will be said but the secularism of the State, painstakingly conquered in Italy, is not an option. But because a fascinating and technically perfect film like Bellocchio's hasn't won any awards at the Cannes Festival? Even the famous film critic Paolo asks about it in Corriere Merghetti arriving at two conclusions that can both be shared. First: Cannes "is not heaven on earth for our cinema" and it is not even the Bible. Second: leaving the international promotion of our films to the French and English is not the best. However, the myopia of Cannes does not erase the applause that Bellocchio amply deserves. Double Up.