Solid, stately and — like the collapsing Papal States of the Italian Peninsula in the late 1800s — just a little too tradition-bound for its own good, Marco Bellocchio’s “Kidnapped,R…
,” based on a 19th-century case of religious abduction, opens with an eavesdrop. Anna , the Catholic servant to the Jewish Mortara family of Bologna, pauses on the stairs after a tryst and spies her employers, Momolo Mortara and his wife Marianna , murmuring a blessing in Hebrew over their newborn baby boy.
The case becomes a cause célèbre and a headache for Pope Pius IX and his chief adviser, Cardinal Antonelli . But instead of relenting to public pressure, maintained by Momolo and the Jewish community’s constant petitions for Edgardo’s return, the Pope, portrayed here as a proudly reactionary bully in a velvet cape, simply issues his edict: “Non possumus” .
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