The trailer's dropped for Joe Wright's Mussolini series. I was intrigued when I heard about it, but this has actually put me off. I don't like the look and I don't like the flashy style: Mussolini winking at the camera, blaring modern music. It can work, but Sofia Coppola was doing this stuff almost 20 years ago with
Marie Antoinette and I've seen enough of it between that, Sorrentino's
Young Pope and whatever else. It's played out.
Atonement director hopes viewers get swept along by M: Son of the Century as ‘to demonise these characters absolves us of moral responsibility’
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