"By the absence of any commentary as well as by its commitment, In the Name of the Duce resembles a documentary. Nonetheless, its fragmentary composition, its distance, its outside approach of the subject and, apart from the denunciation of corruption, the absence of political stands, give it a particular singularity. Alessandra Mussolini, whose campaign is at the heart of the film, and at its source, is presented in a minimal way: hardly a sixth of the film, under ten minutes. Alessandra is a decoy, a dummy-candidate. She herself is not the subject of the film-not to say that she does not have a real political substance-but it is rather her name, that of her grandfather. Hence, the entire film addresses the question: "what face should we give to this name, and what are the politics of this face?"
Yann Lardeau, "Les Films d'Amos Gitai", unpublished