Film
What's on at the cinema plus reviews of the latest movie and DVD releases
Bookmark this pageBlack Holiday (1973)
Director: Marco Leto
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Set in Fascist Italy and focused around the internment of a young professor of law on a prison island, Black Holiday maintains an impressive ideological urgency and relevance. Inspector Rizzuto (Celi, excellent) attempts to 'contain' and control the renegade teacher through the most telling, 'civilised' and classist of methods, by wrapping him in privileges. And the professor (Merli), class-bound but initially blind to the implications of the fact, begins to succumb. The parameters of middle class compromise are very clearly drawn. The precision is admirable, the images spare; and if the hero of the film is the inarticulate Communist who dislocates the professor's essential complacency, its heart can be perceived in the owlish anarchist who remains rousingly defiant to the end.Author: VG
Cast & crew
Director: Marco Leto
Cast: Adalberto Maria Merli, Adolfo Celi, Milena Vukotic, John Steiner, Roberto Herlitzk full cast
Duration: 112 mins
Most popular on this site
Top Stories
Has David Cronenberg turned tame?
Has director David Cronenberg veered too far from his radical and bloody roots with new film 'A Dangerous Method'?
The 10 worst date movies
Just in time for Valentine's Day, we present ten of the least romantic films ever made
Where to watch this year's Oscar-nominated films
Find out where to watch 2012's Oscar-nominated films in London cinemas
10 unlikely badboy biopics
Featuring Phil Collins, Jeremy Clarkson, Nick Clegg, David Starkey and a host of other unlikely subjects
Interview: Sean Durkin on 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'
The first-time director of the brilliant new thriller discusses religious cults and robot boxing
Pop-up cinema for Valentine's Day
Side-step romantic clichés with some alternative Valentine’s viewing
What do you think?
Post your review now