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Venice: Guadagnino's epic chronicle of his filmmaking idol wends and wades its way through Bertolucci's complicated career — but where the hell is "The Dreamers"? This fascinating, often exhilarating documentary has plenty to chew on.

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Venice: Guadagnino's epic chronicle of his filmmaking idol wends and wades its way through Bertolucci's complicated career — but where the hell is "The Dreamers"? This fascinating, often exhilarating documentary has plenty to chew on.
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Ostensibly a tribute to the late Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018), the one-time giant of Italian cinema whose star has waned somewhat in recent years, Luca Guadagnino’s 426-minute docu-essay — nearly twice as long as Alex Gibney’s Musk — is the endurance test of this year’s Venice Film Festival. Surprisingly, however, watched in two sittings, it is […]