Kidnapped

Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is so primally upsetting that you would think it would be unbearable to watch.

With stately restraint, Bellocchio manages to put the audience in an ever-tightening chokehold of tension and outrage.

This is a feast for the eyes, but it's the effect on your heart that stays with you long after the film is through.

This already looks like a classic.

...uses middlebrow signifiers as aesthetic Trojan Horses, lulling his audience just enough so that the physical and psychological violence, when it comes, hits with a brute force that feels equally rooted in cinema and theater.

...hvis man elsker bling og livets store spørgsmål, skal man falde på knæ.