This
film is set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro. She was a young woman who spent 17
years cared for by nuns while in a vegetative state. The entire country is at odds over continuing her care or
letting her pass. She is not shown
but three other women are shown in hospitals. One woman can speak but is confined to her bed. Another woman is young and she has a
machine breathing for her. She
cannot move or communicate. There
is a third woman recently admitted to the hospital and she is in a coma. She is a drug addict.
I
could not get interested in this movie.
It must be the unusual subject and the way this was presented. There is the silence in the rooms of
the women but the drama and controversy among the Italians. There is also the drama among the
families of the women and the hospital staff. 2* (I didn’t like this movie)
115
min, Drama directed by Marco Bellocchio with Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert,
Alba Rohrwacher, Michele Riondino, Maya Sansa, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio.
Note: Imdb 6.4 out of 10, 83% critic 43%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, The New York Times 2 ½*.
Special
Note: The case of Eluana Englaro
is based on fact and was a right-to-euthanasia case in Italy during February of
2009. There was a vote by the
Italian Parliament to settle her fate.
Her father wanted to remove her feeding
tube, he was supported by the
courts and opposed by the Vatican and the Prime Minister. In America, we had the case of Terri Schiavo in Florida between 1998 and 2005.
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