Bellocchio revisits the Moro affair in his first television series, “Exterior Night,” and once again he frees Moro (Fabrizio Gifuni) for just a bit. This time the scholarly, prickly statesman ...

Over time, Mr. Bellocchio’s views have ripened. Like Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair”—“a novel without a hero”—“Exterior Night” is comic (specifically, in the cartoonish music heard ...