Atonement director hopes viewers get swept along by M: Son of the Century as ‘to demonise these characters absolves us of moral responsibility’
He built up violent paramilitary gangs and terrorised political opponents, suspended democracy in favour of a dictatorship that would inspire nazism, and plunged his country into a bloody war.
But a major new biographical series about the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini dares us to feel sympathy for the bull-necked creator of fascism, if only to demonstrate his diabolical charm.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/17/atonement-director-joe-wright-on-his-new-mussolini-biopic-m-son-of-the-century
Author : Philip Oltermann European culture editor
Publish date : 2024-08-17 04:00:49
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