My Mother's Smile

A cardinal's assistant calls on the painter Ernesto Picciafuoco (Sergio Castellitto) with news he never expected: his late mother is being considered for sainthood. Marco Bellocchio follows Ernesto as he tries to square the woman he remembers with the one the Church wants to make of her. His own memories, and what he decides to say about her, are all he has to set against the process.