The Lord of the Ants
Il signore delle formiche
Venice Film Festival
VERDICT: Director Gianni Amelio recreates a dismaying but true story from 1960’s Italy, when a brilliant writer who does little to hide his love for young men is persecuted and put on trial by a laughably outmoded justice system.
After Hammamet, his biographical portrait of Italian politician Bettino Craxi during his last days o