Vincere

VINCERE (2009) - Sept. 18, 2009
A good looking but otherwise fairly crappy film about a woman who had a romance with Mussolini before he became Prime Minister of Italy, had his kid, and was subsequently cut out of his life entirely. She later wound up in an insane asylum when she continually insisted that Mussolini was her husband. The film started out pretty well, but it's clear almost immediately that Mussolini is a much more interesting character than this woman, and he leaves the film at about the forty minute mark, never to be seen again. The film then gets more and more dull as it essentially just consists of the woman trying to convince various people that Mussolini is her husband. The cinematography was quite good, but a keen sense of style just wasn't enough to save this film. *1/2