Bellocchio film in competition at Cannes

(ANSA) - Paris, April 18 - Marco Bellocchio's latest film 'Il traditore' (The Traitor) about late Cosa Nostra 'supergrass Tommaso Buscetta is in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival on May 14-25, organisers said Thursday.
    The selection was announced in Paris by general delegate Thierry Frémaux.
    In the film, Pierfrancesco Favino plays Buscetta.
    Asked about Italy only being represented by one film this year, Frémaux said "you have to judge over at least five years.
    "And in the last five years Italian cinema has been very highly represented".
    "Every time a country is not represented, or not sufficiently represented, it seems as if the they have to immediately whip it up". Bellocchio told ANSA "Tommaso Buscetta is a very complex character. I tried to make an open film and his betrayal, too, must be seen in this light.
    "Strangely, it is a very personal film and at the same time objective", he went on, describing the picture as "a civilised film but without ideology or rhetoric".