ROME: Italian director Marco Bellocchio will get the lifetime achievement award at this year's Venice Film Festival, organizers said Sunday, hailing him as “one of the biggest names in modern cinema”. Festival director Marco Mueller described the 71-year-old Bellocchio in a statement as “an indefatigable walker, a transporter of ideas, an explorer of the unstable boundary between himself, cinema and history.” The festival will be shown a new version of his film “In the Name of the Father” from 1972. One of Bellocchio's most recent works, “Vincere”, is based on a story about Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's secret lover and son. His first film — “I Pugni in Tasca” (“Fists in the Pocket”) from 1965 — was a story about stifling Italian family life and became an instant cult hit.
