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Years after his mother's death, artist Ernesto (Sergio Castellitto) learns of his family's initiative to get her canonized when he's invited for an interview with a cardinal (Maurizio Donadoni).
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- Sergio Castellitto
- Marco Bellocchio
- Drama
Apr 18, 2002 · Director Marco Bellocchio returns to his unconventional roots with "The Religion Hour," a densely textured, intensely personal drama about a confirmed atheist confronted with lingering ties to...
Dec 25, 2017 · A young boy named Leonardo (Alberto Mondini) distractedly paces outside his home within view of his quizzical mother Irene (Jacqueline Lustig) as he seemingly conducts an impassioned conversation with himself.
My Mother's Smile is a 2002 Italian film directed by Marco Bellocchio. The original Italian title is L'ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) ("The Hour of Religion (My Mother's Smile)").
Jul 31, 2006 · In the opening sequence of My Mother’s Smile, the son of atheist protagonist Ernesto Picciafuoco (a suggestive surname that sounds like “fire-starter”), who prior to the current scholastic year has never attended the “hour of religion”, is arguing with God on a balcony, praying for the Lord to leave him alone, as he has taken ...
- Paolo Bertolin
A meeting with the cardinal (Maurizio Donadoni) unsettles Ernesto even more as he recalls his mother's stupidity and her religious subservience to the Catholic Church. Since he wasn't there the night his brother murdered her, he has no new light to shed on the ghastly event.
Sep 7, 2014 · When Ernesto, a famous artist and avowed atheist learns that his late mother is to be sainted, he is forced into acknowledging his own unexamined beliefs as well as the dark hypocrisies within outmoded religious rituals.
