“On 16 December 2016 Letizia, Pier Giorgio, Maria Luisa, Alberto and I, Marco, the surviving Bellocchio sisters and brothers gathered with wives, children and grandchildren at the Circolo dell’Unione in Piacenza to celebrate various birthdays. I had organised the lunch with the idea of making a film about my family, but I still didn’t have a clear idea. I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do. In reality, the aim was something else… To make a film about Camillo, the angel, the protagonist of this story. “Marx can wait’ tells of the death of Camillo, my twin brother, on 27 December 1968. A totally autobiographical story, but which wants to be “universal” (otherwise what interest could it have?) for at least two reasons: a reflection on the pain of the survivors (were we healthy enough brothers to feel pain?), but above all on the desire to hide the truth from our mother, convinced that otherwise she would not have borne the tragedy. Hence the theatre in the tragedy. The second reason is that Camillo’s death falls in a ‘revolutionary’ year, 1968. The year of the protest, sexual freedom, the French May, the invasion of Czechoslovakia, but all these revolutions passed by Camillo’s life, they did not interest him. “Marx can wait,” he told me the last time we met…”.