11 h. ago Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies

Venice film festivalIn the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug traffickingMarco Bellocchio, the tireless warhorse of Italian cinema, kicks up a swirling dust cloud of corruption with this fabulous, stranger-than-fiction account of an 80s TV star convicted of conspiring with the Camorra. Shot for the streaming service HBO Max, it is the director’s second historical miniseries after 2022’s Exterior Night, about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and features the same lead player in Fabrizio Gifuni, an actor who has surely cornered the market in playing glossy public figures whose lives are about to take a hellish turn. Bellocchio’s dramas typically inhabit this kind of shonky, venal moral universe. The ground is liable to drop away pretty much at any moment.Gifuni stars as Enzo Tortora, a primetime TV presenter in the twinkling Terry Wog...

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41 h. ago Moment wife is pushed away by sulky husband after he lost a game of chess before going on to analyse his performance for FOUR hours in torrential rain

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42 h. ago Awkward moment Nick Robinson reminds Chris Philp he opened Bell Hotel for asylum seekers

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5 d. ago Awkward moment Meghan Markle's guest on her Netflix show shades her TV show Suits to her face

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5 d. ago Moment idiot tourist is led away by Italian police after jumping into Rome's ancient Trevi Fountain

The smirking tourist, wearing a blue t-shirt and white shorts, leapt into the 263-year-old baroque fountain despite strict rules against entering the water, as hundreds of visitors watched on.

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5 d. ago Awful moment van rams biker off road before fleeing caught on dashcam

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6 d. ago Horror moment YouTuber swept away by waterfall after posing for drone video

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6 d. ago Meghan Markle reacts to awkward Suits moment on her new Netflix show

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