Mussolini: Son Of The Century
Antonio Scurati’s 2018 “documentary novel” M: Son of the Century was a worldwide bestseller about the early political career of Benito Mussolini and the rise of fascism in post-WWI Italy. Director Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice, Darkest Hour) has adapted the book into an 8-part TV series called Mussolini: Son Of The Century. Here are a pair of trailers:
One commenter on this YT video says “it’s Cabaret meets Clockwork Orange, meets Metropolis…” I stumbled across this via Carla Sinclair, who writes:
It is, unsurprisingly, violent and gritty, highlighting Benito Mussolini’s rise to power that began in the year 1919, when he founded the National Fascist Party in Italy. But it’s also beautifully shot, with military and fight scenes stunningly choreographed to electronic music by Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers. At times it feels like an intense musical — without the song and dance.
If you’re in the US, you can stream Mussolini: Son Of The Century on Mubi — four of the episodes are available so far and the new ones debut on Wednesdays.
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Saw this a few months ago and it's quite brilliant, hilarious in places and not a little terrifying.
This is available on Mubi at least in the UK as well: it may be available everywhere.
It doesn't appear in my Mubi account. As far as I know, the UK rights were picked up by Sky, who showed it on Sky Atlantic earlier in the year. It can be streamed on Now.
Yeah, I don't see it in my UK Mubi account either.
Yeah, I believe it's a Sky co-production.
I was wrong and people replying are right. I sometimes use bittorrent and use a VPN for that which I'd left on so my IP address doesn't get whacked (apparently downloading Ubuntu releases makes me very naughty). Turns out Mubi works over a VPN.
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